Authors Haven - A Social platform for the creative at heart.
Vision
Create a community of like minded authors to foster inspiration and innovation by leveraging the modern web.
API Spec
The preferred JSON object to be returned by the API should be structured as follows:
Users (for authentication)
{
"user": {
"email": "jake@jake.jake",
"token": "jwt.token.here",
"username": "jake",
"bio": "I work at statefarm",
"image": null
}
}
Profile
{
"profile": {
"username": "jake",
"bio": "I work at statefarm",
"image": "image-link",
"following": false
}
}
Single Article
{
"article": {
"slug": "how-to-train-your-dragon",
"title": "How to train your dragon",
"description": "Ever wonder how?",
"body": "It takes a Jacobian",
"tagList": ["dragons", "training"],
"createdAt": "2016-02-18T03:22:56.637Z",
"updatedAt": "2016-02-18T03:48:35.824Z",
"favorited": false,
"favoritesCount": 0,
"author": {
"username": "jake",
"bio": "I work at statefarm",
"image": "https://i.stack.imgur.com/xHWG8.jpg",
"following": false
}
}
}
Multiple Articles
{
"articles":[{
"slug": "how-to-train-your-dragon",
"title": "How to train your dragon",
"description": "Ever wonder how?",
"body": "It takes a Jacobian",
"tagList": ["dragons", "training"],
"createdAt": "2016-02-18T03:22:56.637Z",
"updatedAt": "2016-02-18T03:48:35.824Z",
"favorited": false,
"favoritesCount": 0,
"author": {
"username": "jake",
"bio": "I work at statefarm",
"image": "https://i.stack.imgur.com/xHWG8.jpg",
"following": false
}
}, {
"slug": "how-to-train-your-dragon-2",
"title": "How to train your dragon 2",
"description": "So toothless",
"body": "It a dragon",
"tagList": ["dragons", "training"],
"createdAt": "2016-02-18T03:22:56.637Z",
"updatedAt": "2016-02-18T03:48:35.824Z",
"favorited": false,
"favoritesCount": 0,
"author": {
"username": "jake",
"bio": "I work at statefarm",
"image": "https://i.stack.imgur.com/xHWG8.jpg",
"following": false
}
}],
"articlesCount": 2
}
Single Comment
{
"comment": {
"id": 1,
"createdAt": "2016-02-18T03:22:56.637Z",
"updatedAt": "2016-02-18T03:22:56.637Z",
"body": "It takes a Jacobian",
"author": {
"username": "jake",
"bio": "I work at statefarm",
"image": "https://i.stack.imgur.com/xHWG8.jpg",
"following": false
}
}
}
Multiple Comments
{
"comments": [{
"id": 1,
"createdAt": "2016-02-18T03:22:56.637Z",
"updatedAt": "2016-02-18T03:22:56.637Z",
"body": "It takes a Jacobian",
"author": {
"username": "jake",
"bio": "I work at statefarm",
"image": "https://i.stack.imgur.com/xHWG8.jpg",
"following": false
}
}],
"commentsCount": 1
}
List of Tags
{
"tags": [
"reactjs",
"angularjs"
]
}
Errors and Status Codes
If a request fails any validations, expect errors in the following format:
{
"errors":{
"body": [
"can't be empty"
]
}
}
Other status codes:
401 for Unauthorized requests, when a request requires authentication but it isn't provided
403 for Forbidden requests, when a request may be valid but the user doesn't have permissions to perform the action
404 for Not found requests, when a resource can't be found to fulfill the request
Endpoints:
Authentication:
POST /api/users/login
Example request body:
{
"user":{
"email": "jake@jake.jake",
"password": "jakejake"
}
}
No authentication required, returns a User
Required fields: email
, password
Registration:
POST /api/users
Example request body:
{
"user":{
"username": "Jacob",
"email": "jake@jake.jake",
"password": "jakejake"
}
}
No authentication required, returns a User
Required fields: email
, username
, password
Get Current User
GET /api/user
Authentication required, returns a User that's the current user
Update User
PUT /api/user
Example request body:
{
"user":{
"email": "jake@jake.jake",
"bio": "I like to skateboard",
"image": "https://i.stack.imgur.com/xHWG8.jpg"
}
}
Authentication required, returns the User
Accepted fields: email
, username
, password
, image
, bio
Get Profile
GET /api/profiles/:username
Authentication optional, returns a Profile
Follow user
POST /api/profiles/:username/follow
Authentication required, returns a Profile
No additional parameters required
Unfollow user
DELETE /api/profiles/:username/follow
Authentication required, returns a Profile
No additional parameters required
List Articles
GET /api/articles
Returns most recent articles globally by default, provide tag
, author
or favorited
query parameter to filter results
Query Parameters:
Filter by tag:
?tag=AngularJS
Filter by author:
?author=jake
Favorited by user:
?favorited=jake
Limit number of articles (default is 20):
?limit=20
Offset/skip number of articles (default is 0):
?offset=0
Authentication optional, will return multiple articles, ordered by most recent first
Feed Articles
GET /api/articles/feed
Can also take limit
and offset
query parameters like List Articles
Authentication required, will return multiple articles created by followed users, ordered by most recent first.
Get Article
GET /api/articles/:slug
No authentication required, will return single article
Create Article
POST /api/articles
Example request body:
{
"article": {
"title": "How to train your dragon",
"description": "Ever wonder how?",
"body": "You have to believe",
"tagList": ["reactjs", "angularjs", "dragons"]
}
}
Authentication required, will return an Article
Required fields: title
, description
, body
Optional fields: tagList
as an array of Strings
Update Article
PUT /api/articles/:slug
Example request body:
{
"article": {
"title": "Did you train your dragon?"
}
}
Authentication required, returns the updated Article
Optional fields: title
, description
, body
The slug
also gets updated when the title
is changed
Delete Article
DELETE /api/articles/:slug
Authentication required
Add Comments to an Article
POST /api/articles/:slug/comments
Example request body:
{
"comment": {
"body": "His name was my name too."
}
}
Authentication required, returns the created Comment
Required field: body
Get Comments from an Article
GET /api/articles/:slug/comments
Authentication optional, returns multiple comments
Delete Comment
DELETE /api/articles/:slug/comments/:id
Authentication required
Favorite Article
POST /api/articles/:slug/favorite
Authentication required, returns the Article No additional parameters required
Unfavorite Article
DELETE /api/articles/:slug/favorite
Authentication required, returns the Article
No additional parameters required
Get Tags
GET /api/tags