This is an Restful API for Node.js and Mongo. Designed after PHP's beautiful Laravel. This is in the MVC format, except because it is an API there are no views, just models and controllers.
tutorial can be found here: https://medium.com/@brianalois/build-node-mongo-rest-api-2018-jwt-eff0e4f41007
git clone {repo_name}
npm install
You will find a example.env file in the home directory. Paste the contents of that into a file named .env in the same directory. Fill in the variables to fit your application