User:Saul/feathers

Feathers is a lightweight framework for setting up REST API's and realtime events.

Install

CLI

Install the cli to get started with you feathers application quickly.

npm install -g @feathersjs/cli

App

To get feathers to generate the app run:

feathers generate app

Authentication

To generate a authentication method use:

feathers generate authentication

Services

Services are a way to set up the REST API for a service like messages, users, channels, ect.

feathers generate service

Setup

TBC

Usage

Reverse Pagination

The best way that I have found to get the latest objects in the database is to use $sort like so:

app.service("messages").find({
	query: {
		$limit: 10,
		$sort: {
			createdAt: -1
		}
	}
}).then(res => {
	const latest data = res.data.reverse();
};