Shopify Internship Challenge

This repository is my submission for the Shopify Challenge!

Project Features

User authentication
Secure uploading and storing images to AWS S3
Viewing own (public + private) images
Viewing public images
Viewing images by category
Viewing specific images
Searching image by name or categories
Editing image details
Deleting images
Access control to ensure that only owner can edit or delete images
Purchasing images through Stripe

How I Built It

The tools used in the project consists of Node.js and Express, which is connected to MongoDB. For image storage, AWS S3 was levaraged. Stripe was used for image purchases.

Setup

Ensure that Node.js is downloaded and have a MongoDB database and AWS S3 bucket set up.

Clone the project with git clone https://github.com/feng-eric/image-repo.git
Create a .env file in the root directory and request the following environment variables from me.

MONGO_DB_URL=
JWT_KEY=
PORT=
AWS_BUCKET_NAME=
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=
AWS_REGION=
AWS_UPLOAD_FILE_URL=
STRIPE_KEY=

Install dependencies for the project using npm install
Start the server using npm start

Endpoints

POST /users/register for registering a user
POST /users/login for logging in a user, returning a JSON Web Token that is used to access protected routes
POST /images for uploading the image, which is stored in AWS S3 (protected route)
PUT /images/:id for editing image details, including image name, categories, and accessibility (protected route)
DELETE /images/:id for deleting an image (protected route)
GET /images/me for retrieving all images owned by the user (protected route)
GET /images/category/:category for retrieving images by on category
GET /images/search?filter=sunny for searching images by image name or categories
GET /images/all for retrieving all images that are public
GET /images/:id for retrieving image by id
POST /payments for purchasing an image (protected route)

What's Next