Make a NodeJS rest api
Why do this tutorial
I was searching a long time ago about how to make my own boilerplate for nodejs. I hate when I take something from someone else and don't know what happen.
I create this tutorial for helping people to make their own rest api and maybe use it as your boilerplate
Features
This rest api gonna be for a Medium like website. This is a simple blog place where people can follow author and create a post. People can like the post and get notification when a user they follow create a new one.
- Authentication local + jwt
- User can create a post
- User can delete is own post and update it
- User can follow an other one
- User get notification on following new post
- User can like a post
- User can see all the post they like
Tech use
I use the latest feature of javascript. ES6 + ES7, we compile with the help of babel and webpack v2.
Part 1, Setup the tools
Video
To add
- editorconfig
- express
- eslint
- babel
- webpack 2
Part 2, Setup of the middlewares and mongodb
Video
- Add mongoose, body-parser, morgan, compression, helmet
- Setup config folder
- Setup constants
Part 3, Users creation
Video
- Create the user model, controller and routes
- Install robomongo, postman
- Add joi for validation with express-validation
Part 4, Add bcrypt and passport
Video
- Add rimraf and clean dist on webpack build
- Crypt the user password
- Create the localStrategy with passport
- Can log a user
Part 5, Add passport-jwt and send less information about the user
Video
- Create a secret password for the jwt
- Add passport-jwt and create the strategy
- Add jsonswebtoken library
- How can I send less info to the front end ? Like I don't want to send the password
Part 6, Creation of a post
Video
- Create the post model
- Add the user id as the author
- Resolve error I did with joi
Part 7, Get a post by his id
Video
- Create the controller, route
- Add http-status library
- Populate User
- User toAuthJSON vs toJSON
Part 8, Get all posts with a list statics method
Video
- Talk about the repos
- Create the controller
- Create a list statics method on post
Part 9, Update a post if author of it
Video
- Create the route and controller
- Create a validation field
Part 10, Delete a post if author of it
Video
- Create the route and controller
- Show the authorization work
- Add prettier and show the magic :)
Part 11, User can favorite a post if auth + increment the favoriteCount
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- Create model methods for both user and post
- Add the increment/decrement statics on post
Part 12, Send if favorite or not with post for help the life of the front-end
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- Make route auth
- Make user method
- Make post controller work with the favorite