Tech-News

API for a social web app for sharing learning resources in a Hacker News-style experience.

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Deployed Version

Explore the live API here 👉🏻 : https://server-alpha-eight-79.vercel.app/healthz

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Key Features

• Authentication and Authorization 🚀
  • Sign up, Sign in.
• User Profile 🧑‍💼
  • Update username, first/last name, and other information.
• Post list 🔗
  • List of links, each titled by the poster and scored based on popularity.
  • Users can create/update/delete their own posts.
  • After signing in, users can add comments and upvote posts.
• Comments and Likes 🖋️
  • Users are able to delete their own comments and likes.

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Database ERD

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API Usage

Before using the API, you need to set the variables in Postman depending on your environment (development or production). Simply add:

- {{URL}} with your hostname as value (Eg. http://127.0.0.1:3000 or http://www.example.com)
- {{password}} with your user password as value.

For more info check API Documentation on Postman 👉🏻 Tech News API Documentation.

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Built With

• NodeJS - JS runtime environment
• Express - The web framework used
• TypeScript - A strongly typed PL
• SQLite - A self-contained SQL database engine
• JSON Web Token - Security token
• Postman - API testing