A quick overview of a sample Node.js server

We have prepared a sample Node.js server that implements the Flexmonster custom data source API. It is available in the server-nodejs/ folder in the api-data-source GitHub repository.

The sample Node.js server implements version 2.8.5 of the custom data source API.

Download the sample Node.js server

Download the .zip archive with the sample server or clone it from GitHub with the following command:

git clone https://github.com/flexmonster/api-data-source

Run the sample Node.js server

To start the server, run the following commands in a console:

cd api-data-source/server-nodejs
npm install
npm start

All requests from Flexmonster Pivot Table are handled by the http://localhost:3400/api/cube endpoint.

Raw data is stored in JSON format in the server-nodejs/data/ folder.

Configure the report

On the client side (see /client/index.html), the report should be configured as follows:

new Flexmonster({
  container: "pivotContainer",
  componentFolder: "node_modules/flexmonster/",
  report: {
    dataSource: {
      type: "api",
      url: "http://localhost:3400/api/cube",
      index: "fm-product-sales"
    }
  }
});

The dataSource.index property matches the name of the JSON file from the server-nodejs/data/ folder.

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