skepticalsaif/SMA_Complete

Social Media Sample Project

Database Setup

$ mysql -u root

create database cbsocialmediadb;

create user cbsocialuser identified with mysql_native_password by 'cbsocialpass';

grant all privileges on cbsocialmediadb.*  to cbsocialuser;

flush privileges;

Project Structure

Backend (Server)

src
├── controllers         # functions to connect routes to db operations
├── db                  # db connection and model definitions
├── public              # html/js/css files for static part of site
└── routes              # express middlewares (route wise)

Frontend (Client Side Code)

src/public
├── app                                     # our own frontend js code
│   └── common.js
├── components                              # own own html snippets
│   └── navbar.html
├── css                                     # css libraries we are using
│   └── bootstrap.css
├── fonts                                   # fonts that we are using
│   ├── Muli-Italic.woff2
│   ├── Muli.woff2
│   └── muli.css
├── index.html                              # first / home page
└── js                                      # js libraries we are using
    ├── bootstrap.js
    ├── jquery-3.4.1.js
    └── popper.js

Business Logic

Users

1. create users this will create a new user with a random username

Posts

1. create post this will create a new post, required fields are

   • username (the author of this post)
   • title
   • body

2. show all posts list all existing posts, we should have following filtering support

   • filter by username
   • filter by query contained in title (search by title)

3. edit posts TBD

4. delete posts TBD

Comments

1. show all comments (of a user)

2. show all comments (under a post)

3. add a comment

API Documentation

users

1. POST /users

Creates a new user with random username and an user id

2. GET /users/{userid}

Get an user with a given user id

3. GET /users/{username}

Get an user with a given username

posts

1. GET /posts

Get all posts by everyone

2. POST /posts

Create a new post. Required fields in body -

userId=
title=
body=