DevSocialMedia - backend v1.

The idea and purpose of this project is to make a project which will be a journey not a goal to achieve, to expose myself for re-factorization, bug-fixes and place to grow to implement other technologies keeping in mind TypeScript and NextJS.

Project is a back-end api for social media platform which use features:

• REGISTER - create new user with email confirmation using gogleapis and nodemailer
• FORGOT PASSWORD - send email with code to reset password
• USER AUTHORIZATION JWT - users are authorized using JSON Web Tokens
• EDIT USER DETAILS - CRUD for user details
• UPLOAD FILE - user can upload profile image, cover image, post images and comments images and store it on cloudinary
• ADD FRIEND/FOLLOW - user can add or follow friend and automatically see their posts on home page
• REACT and COMMENT - users can send reactions and comments to posts which are stored in database
• LIVE SEARCH with SEARCH HISTORY - user can live search another user (full name or surename) and search results are stored for future searches

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TECHNOLOGIES:

- JavaScript

- TypeScript - migration to TypeScript in progress, still need polishing

- NodeJS

- Express

- MongoDB (mongoose)

- JWT (Json Web Token)

- OAuth 2.0

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TESTING: - in progress, first tests soon...

Jest

SuperTest

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Packages:

• Nodemailer
• googleapis
• express-fileupload
• cloudinary
• bcrypt
• cors
• typescript
• ts-node
• ts-node-dev
• config
• dayjs
• pino / pino-pretty
• prettier
• jest
• supertest
• ts-jest

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Application structure:

Folders structure:

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Project currently in progress, future improvements:

• Prepare README
• Refactoring Backend to TypeScript
• Unit Testing
• Endpoint testing with SuperTest
• Testing coverage report
• Prometheus Metrics with Grafana dashboard
• Migration to NestJS on separated branch