The objective is to build a simple platform to upload and view files:
- User authentication via a token
- List all files
- Upload a new file
- Change permission of a file
- View a file
- Generate thumbnails for images
Also, to fully understand these concepts:
- how to create an API with Express
- how to authenticate a user
- how to store data in MongoDB
- how to store temporary data in Redis
- how to setup and use a background worker
Start server:
bob@dylan:~$ npm run start-server
Server running on port 5000
...
Create user:
bob@dylan:~$ curl 0.0.0.0:5000/users -XPOST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{ "email": "bob@dylan.com", "password": "toto1234!" }' ; echo ""
{"id":"5f1e7d35c7ba06511e683b21","email":"bob@dylan.com"}
Authenticate user:
curl 0.0.0.0:5000/connect -H "Authorization: Basic Ym9iQGR5bGFuLmNvbTp0b3RvMTIzNCE=" ; echo ""
{"token":"031bffac-3edc-4e51-aaae-1c121317da8a"}
bob@dylan:~$
bob@dylan:~$ curl 0.0.0.0:5000/users/me -H "X-Token: 031bffac-3edc-4e51-aaae-1c121317da8a" ; echo ""
{"id":"5f1e7cda04a394508232559d","email":"bob@dylan.com"}
bob@dylan:~$
Create file:
bob@dylan:~$ curl -XPOST 0.0.0.0:5000/files -H "X-Token: f21fb953-16f9-46ed-8d9c-84c6450ec80f" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{ "name": "myText.txt", "type": "file", "data": "SGVsbG8gV2Vic3RhY2shCg==" }' ; echo ""
{"id":"5f1e879ec7ba06511e683b22","userId":"5f1e7cda04a394508232559d","name":"myText.txt","type":"file","isPublic":false,"parentId":0}
bob@dylan:~$
bob@dylan:~$ ls /tmp/files_manager/
2a1f4fc3-687b-491a-a3d2-5808a02942c9
bob@dylan:~$
bob@dylan:~$ cat /tmp/files_manager/2a1f4fc3-687b-491a-a3d2-5808a02942c9
Hello Webstack!
Get files:
curl -XGET 0.0.0.0:5000/files -H "X-Token: f21fb953-16f9-46ed-8d9c-84c6450ec80f" ; echo ""
[{"id":"5f1e879ec7ba06511e683b22","userId":"5f1e7cda04a394508232559d","name":"myText.txt","type":"file","isPublic":false,"parentId":0},{"id":"5f1e881cc7ba06511e683b23","userId":"5f1e7cda04a394508232559d","name":"images","type":"folder","isPublic":false,"parentId":0},{"id":"5f1e8896c7ba06511e683b25","userId":"5f1e7cda04a394508232559d","name":"image.png","type":"image","isPublic":true,"parentId":"5f1e881cc7ba06511e683b23"}]
bob@dylan:~$
bob@dylan:~$ curl -XGET 0.0.0.0:5000/files?parentId=5f1e881cc7ba06511e683b23 -H "X-Token: f21fb953-16f9-46ed-8d9c-84c6450ec80f" ; echo ""
[{"id":"5f1e8896c7ba06511e683b25","userId":"5f1e7cda04a394508232559d","name":"image.png","type":"image","isPublic":true,"parentId":"5f1e881cc7ba06511e683b23"}]
bob@dylan:~$
bob@dylan:~$ curl -XGET 0.0.0.0:5000/files/5f1e8896c7ba06511e683b25 -H "X-Token: f21fb953-16f9-46ed-8d9c-84c6450ec80f" ; echo ""
{"id":"5f1e8896c7ba06511e683b25","userId":"5f1e7cda04a394508232559d","name":"image.png","type":"image","isPublic":true,"parentId":"5f1e881cc7ba06511e683b23"}
bob@dylan:~$
Publish a file:
curl -XGET 0.0.0.0:5000/files/5f1e8896c7ba06511e683b25 -H "X-Token: f21fb953-16f9-46ed-8d9c-84c6450ec80f" ; echo ""
{"id":"5f1e8896c7ba06511e683b25","userId":"5f1e7cda04a394508232559d","name":"image.png","type":"image","isPublic":false,"parentId":"5f1e881cc7ba06511e683b23"}
bob@dylan:~$
bob@dylan:~$ curl -XPUT 0.0.0.0:5000/files/5f1e8896c7ba06511e683b25/publish -H "X-Token: f21fb953-16f9-46ed-8d9c-84c6450ec80f" ; echo ""
{"id":"5f1e8896c7ba06511e683b25","userId":"5f1e7cda04a394508232559d","name":"image.png","type":"image","isPublic":true,"parentId":"5f1e881cc7ba06511e683b23"}
Get a file's data:
curl -XGET 0.0.0.0:5000/files/5f1e879ec7ba06511e683b22/data -H "X-Token: f21fb953-16f9-46ed-8d9c-84c6450ec80f" ; echo ""
Hello Webstack!