Sails (Part 2)
Neil Haddley • October 12, 2021
Sails and the Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB
Articles api
BASH
1% sails generate api articles
generate api articles
Blueprint API
Once the articles api has been created I can use the Blueprint API to create article items.
On the laptop I navigate to http://localhost:1337/articles.
/articles
/articles/Create?title=<title>&body=<body>
Push to GitHub
The new code is published to https://haddley-sails.azurewebsites.net after it is pushed to the GitHub repository.
Push to GitHub
GitHub action in progress
GitHub action completed
Creating and Destroying items
Once the articles model update has been published to Azure I can use the Blueprint API to create and to remove (destroy) article items.
I navigate to https://haddley-sails.azurewebsites.net/articles.
/articles/Create?...
/articles/Destroy?...
/articles
Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB
In the screenshots above I have been using local disk storage and the sails-disk adapter.
Below I update the application to use the Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB.
Overview
updated connections.js
updated model
/articles
Data Explorer
Push changes to GitHub
GitHub action in progress
https://haddley-sails.azurewebsites.net/articles connected to Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB