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Youtube tutorial for making a NodeJS REST API with MongoDB

Primary LanguageJavaScript

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

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To add

  • editorconfig
  • express
  • eslint
  • babel
  • webpack 2

Part 2, Setup of the middlewares and mongodb

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  • Add mongoose, body-parser, morgan, compression, helmet
  • Setup config folder
  • Setup constants

Part 3, Users creation

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  • Create the user model, controller and routes
  • Install robomongo, postman
  • Add joi for validation with express-validation

Part 4, Add bcrypt and passport

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • Create the controller, route
  • Add http-status library
  • Populate User
  • User toAuthJSON vs toJSON

Part 8, Get all posts with a list statics method

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  • Talk about the repos
  • Create the controller
  • Create a list statics method on post

Part 9, Update a post if author of it

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  • Create the route and controller
  • Create a validation field

Part 10, Delete a post if author of it

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  • 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