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.

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. The file name matches the index property of the dataSource configuration object.

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

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

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

cd server-nodejs
npm install
npm start

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

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

What’s next?

You may be interested in the following articles:

• Implementing the custom data source API server
• Implementing filters
• Returning data for the drill-through view
• Supporting more aggregation functions
• A quick overview of a sample .NET Core server