entropy is a simple RESTful server in front of a MongoDB instance using node.js, Express, Connect and Mongoose.

• node.js
• Express
• Connect
• Mongoose

Clone the Github repository or simply download the sources. You can run an entropy instance just by starting it with the node command:

node entropy.js

Copy the config.json.sample file to config.json and modify it to fit your needs.

You can put your Mongoose models in the /models directory. Here's an example of an simple user model:

// models/user.js
var mongoose = require("mongoose").Mongoose;

mongoose.model("user", {
  properties: ["username", "email"],
  cast: {
    username: String,
    email: String
  },
  indexes: ["username", "email"]
});

That's it. You can now find, read, create, modify and remove user objects via REST, just by calling the appropriate URLs:

GET localhost:3000/user // find
GET localhost:3000/user/1 // read
POST localhost:3000/user?user[username]=foo&user[email]=bar // create
POST localhost:3000/user/1?user[username]=foo&user[email]=bar // modify
DELETE localhost:3000/user/1 // remove

For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE file that was distributed with this source code.