Portfolio APIs

The purpose of this project was to work as a very basic Node.js backend service for my V1 portfolio website (not in use anymore) where I could:

• Send contact email
• List all GitHub repos
• GitHub repo count
• GitHub repo readme file
• List all dev.to blog posts
• dev.to blog post count

Ideally I would've liked to have spent more time working on a number of things like authentication, better error handling, pretty emails, testing etc. it was suitable for me at the time. I've talked about why I created this backend service in this blog post.

I used Node.js and Heroku for hosting as both were free.

Get started

Install NPM packages via npm i then run the project via node index.js and look at http://localhost:3000

Basic usage

List all blog posts from dev.to

GET http://localhost:3000/api/posts

List all repos from GitHub

GET http://localhost:3000/api/repos

Get GitHub repo readme

GET http://localhost:3000/api/repo/<repoName>/readme

Send contact email

POST TBC