This repository serves as a backend for my StoryHub applcation which is a fullstack internship learning project at CEFALO. You can visit the frontend part here.
To get the Node server running locally:
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Clone this repo
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npm installto install all required dependencies -
create an .env file in the root folder containing following variables :
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npm startto start the local server -
npm testto run the test files
Alternately, you can visit the web app at https://story-book.cyclic.app/
StoryHub is mainly a simple blogging web app, where a random person can become an user by signing up with email, username, name and password. A user can post story with a valid title, and content. Users can also edit or delete their respective stories while logged in.
I have used a remote PostgreSQL database service (https://www.elephantsql.com/ )
- expressjs - The server for handling and routing HTTP requests
- jsonwebtoken - For generating JWTs used by authentication
- pg - As a PostgreSQL client for Node.js
- sequelize - As a promise-based Node.js ORM tool for PostgreSQL
- cors - For enabling CORS with various options.
- jest - As a testing framework.
and others.
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Instructions I Followed For :