Social Media Backend Server

Description

This project is built using Express.js for the server and mongoose for the database. It contains role based authorization (admin and user) and authentication features, Error handling, implements CRUD operations for User, Post, Comment and Review models and uses mongodb aggregation pipelines to get the top rated posts by users.

Technologies used

• Express.js
• Mongoose
• express-async-errors
• Joi
• bcrypt
• jsonwebtoken
• multer
• cloudinary
• multer-storage-cloudinary

Available Scripts

In the project directory, you can run:

npm i

install all dependencies.

nodemon .

Launches the server at http://localhost:9999 and connects to the database. postman was used for test cases.

Project Structure

.
├── config/
│ └── default.config.js
├── controllers/
│ ├── avatar.controller.js
│ ├── signup.controller.js
│ ├── login.controller.js
│ ├── user.controller.js
│ ├── post.controller.js
│ ├── comment.controllerjs
│ ├── review.controllerjs
│ └── topPosts.controllerjs
├── models/
│ ├── user.mdel.js
│ ├── post.model.js
│ ├── comment.model.js
│ └── review.model.js
├── routes/
│ ├── avatar.route.js
│ ├── signup.route.js
│ ├── login.route.js
│ ├── user.route.js
│ ├── post.route.js
│ ├── comment.route.js
│ ├── review.route.js
│ └── topPosts.route.js
├── utils/
│ ├── authentication.js
│ ├── Error.js
│ ├── tokenVerification.js
│ ├── namespace.util.js
│ ├── multer.js
│ └── cloudinary.js
├── .gitignore
├── db.js
├── index.js
├── package-lock.json
├── package.json
└── README.md

Users

• (admin): [email protected] - admin
• [email protected] - 11111
• [email protected] - 22222
• [email protected] - 33333
• [email protected] - 44444

Routes

• Login: POST request at /auth

• Signup-add user: POST request at /signup

User (requires authorization)

• get all users: GET request at /user
• get single user: GET request at /user/:id
• edit user (only creator): PATCH request at /user/:id
• delete user (only admin or creator): DELETE request at /user/:id

Post (requires authorization)

• get all posts: GET request at /post
• get single post: GET request at /post/:id
• add post: POST request at /post
• edit post (only creator): PATCH request at /post/:id
• delete post (only admin or creator): DELETE request at /post/:id

Comment (requires authorization)

• get all comments: GET request at /comment
• get single comment: GET request at /post/:id/comment/:id
• add comment: POST request at /post/:id
• edit comment (only creator): PATCH request at /post/:id/comment/:id
• delete comment (only admin or creator): DELETE request at /post/:id/comment/:id

Review (requires authorization)

• get all reviews: GET request at /post
• get single review: GET request at /post/:id
• add review: POST request at /post/:id/review
• edit review (only creator): PATCH request at /post/:id/review/:id
• delete review (only admin or creator): DELETE request at /post/:id/review/:id