Linkr Server

This project was made using Node.js and Express and consists on an API used for a social network back-end workprocess.

Features

1. Sign-up and sign-in with jwt authentication
2. User search
3. Publishing posts
4. Listing posts with pagination
5. Listing 10 most popular hashtahgs
6. Users' posts
7. Hashtags' posts
8. Post edition and deletion
9. Interactions with post (likes, comments and re-posts)

Documentation

You can check project's simplified documentation here.

Cloning project

Clone the project in your server with the following command:

git clone https://github.com/ana-pairo/linkr-server.git

Deploying application

1. Create a .env file in the root of the project. Populate it based on the .env.example file. Keep all the values already set in the .env.example and provide only the following:

   • POSTGRES_USERNAME
   • POSTGRES_PASSWORD
   • POSTGRES_DATABASE
   • TOKEN_SECRET
   • DATABASE_URL

2. The DATABASE_URL must be completed considering the pattern below:

   postgresql://<POSTGRES_USERNAME>:<POSTGRES_PASSWORD>@<POSTGRES_HOST>:<POSTGRES_PORT>/<POSTGRES_DATABASE>?schema=public

3. Create a self-signed certificate by running the following command at the src/config/ level:

   openssl req -nodes -new -x509 -keyout server.key -out server.cert

   After running this command, you would get some options to fill. You can keep those options default or empty by entering ‘.‘ (dot).

   Make sure that both server.key and server.cert are created and inside the config folder.

4. Finally, at the root level of the project, run docker compose up to spin up the linkr server.

5. (Optional) Run docker compose down -v to stop the linkr server.