A Free HelpForum for Programmers and Developers
So it all started in covid times
Me and my friends were discussing about a coding problems
No one of us was able to solve a problem or we were having difficulty in
understanding the problem .
so there was a need of someone who had solved that problem can help us .
But there was no such platform where we can post the question and get help.
So there I created this HelpForum WebApplication
where different user can post their queries regarding coding Problems and get clear their doubts
1. simple login and logout using google authentication
2. users can post the ( topic ,link and query regarding the question)
users of the platform can answer to other user doubts by writing there
solution in the editor attached.
3. editor provide the functionality of :
adding code snippets
adding header and link to a video solution etc.
4. And the other main feature the user can upvote a answer if they like it
5. We can also comment on the answers that were posted by other user.
| Type | Route | Path Parameters | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| POST | /login | body :- req.body.googlId | loging in the User |
| POST | /logut | body:- req.body.userId | logout the User |
| Type | Route | Path Parameters | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| GET | /profile/:userid | userId | To get the Profile of User |
| GET | /profile/:userid/answer/show/:id | userId , answerid = id | To get the User answers |
| GET | /profile/:userid/question/:id | userId , questionid = id | To get the User Asked Questions |
| Type | Route | Path Parameters | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| GET | /questions/:userid/smoothies | userId | To get All The Questions in the Forum |
| GET | /questions/:userid/UpdateQuestionList | userId | display a form for creating a new Question |
| GET | /questions/:userid/:id | userId ,id=questionId | shows more info about one Question |
| GET | /questions/:userid/:id/answer/new | userId ,id=answerid | show text-editor when someone wants to post a Answer |
| GET | /questions/:userid/:questionid/answer/show/:id | userId ,questionid, id=answerid | show detail page for a pariticular answer |
| POST | /questions/:userid/UpdateQuestionList | userId | to add the new Question in database/WebSite |
| POST | /questions/:userid/delete | userId | to delete a question |
| POST | /:userid/:id/answer/new | userId, id=answerId | to add the new Answer for a question in the Database. |
| Type | Route | Path Parameters | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| GET | /answer/:userid/show/:id | userId, id=questionId | show detail page for a pariticular answer |
| POST | /answer/:userid/delete | userId | to delete a answer of a question |
| POST | /answer/:userid/upvote | userId | to Upvote a answer of a question |
| POST | /answer/:userid/:id/comment/new | userId,id=commentId | to post a new comment for a particular answer. |
| Type | Route | Path Parameters | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| GET | /comment/:userid/delete | userId | To delete a Comment By a User |
- NodeJs
- ExpressJs
- npm init
- install all dependencies - npm install
body-parser
cookie-parser
ejs
express
mongoose
- nodemon : npm install nodemon -g
- changes to be made : in package.json file
"scripts": {
"start": "node app.js",
"devStart": "nodemon app.js",
"test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
}
- to run server : npm run devStart
1. requireAuth :
means Authentication is required before accessing any page.
user will not be allowed to enter any sort of information before loging the system
[LINK TO SNIPPET]