Social Media Platform

The project is the backend of a social media platform. The APIs support features like getting a user profile, follow a user, upload a post, delete a post, like a post, unlike a liked post, and comment on a post.

Features

• Authenticate a user
• Follow a user
• Unfollow a user
• Create a post
• Delete a post
• Add comment to a post
• Like a post
• Unlike a post

Environment Variables

To run this project, you will need to add the following environment variables to your .env file

MONGO_URI

JWT_SECRET

BASE_URL - Base url of where the backend is hosted

SAMPLE_TOKEN - JWT token for authenticated users

Methods to run

1) Run using NPM

Clone the project

  git clone https://github.com/abhay2002-pro/reunion_assignment.git

Go to the project directory

  cd reunion_assignment

Install dependencies

  npm install

Start the server

  npm run start

2) Run using Docker

Clone the project

  git clone https://github.com/abhay2002-pro/reunion_assignment.git

Go to the project directory

  cd reunion_assignment

Run the application

  docker compose up

Tech Stack

Server: Node, Express

Database: Mongo DB

Tests: Chai and Mocha