This project is a summary of this back-end trimester: authentication, NodeJS, MongoDB, Redis, pagination and background processing.
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
- 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
- Node.js
- A Google API should be created with at least an email sending scope and a valid URL (e.g.;
http://localhost:5000/) should be one of the redirect URIs. Thecredentials.jsonfile should be stored in the root directory of this project.
The required environment variables should be stored in a file named .env and each line should have the format Name=Value. The table below lists the environment variables that will be used by this server:
| Name | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
| GOOGLE_MAIL_SENDER | Yes | The email address of the account responsible for sending emails to users. |
| PORT | No (Default: 5000) |
The port the server should listen at. |
| DB_HOST | No (Default: localhost) |
The database host. |
| DB_PORT | No (Default: 27017) |
The database port. |
| DB_DATABASE | No (Default: files_manager) |
The database name. |
| FOLDER_PATH | No (Default: /tmp/files_manager (Linux, Mac OS X) & %TEMP%/files_manager (Windows)) |
The local folder where files are saved. |
- Clone this repository and switch to the cloned repository's directory.
- Install the packages using
npm install.
Start the Redis and MongoDB services on your system and run npm run start-server.
- Create a separate
.envfile for the tests named.env.testand store the value of the environment variables for the testing event in it. - Run ``npm run test` to execute the E2E tests.