'MOVIES-EXPLORER' API. Backend diploma project at Yandex.Practicum

Description

This is a backend part of a diploma project of the web development course of Yandex Practicum. This repository contains REST API used for user authentification, user data edition and setting favorite movies in Movies Explorer - a web application that allows to search for documentaries within the database provided by Beat Film Festival.

Check out frontend part of the project

Functionality

Method	Route	Description
GET	/users/me	returns values of email and name of the current user
PATCH	/users/me	updates user info with the email and name passed in the body of the query
POST	/movies	creates a movie entity with the following values set in the body: country, director, duration, year, description, *image, trailer, nameRU, nameEN, movieId and thumbnail (method used for creating a "saved movies" page)
GET	/movies	returns all movies that were saved by the user
DELETE	/movies/movieId	deletes a saved movie with a certain _id
POST	/signup	creates a new user with email, password, name set in body
POST	/signin	checks email and password sent in body for validity and returns JWT if succeeded

Validation

• The queries that reach the server are getting validated with via celebrate middleware and joi validation library;
• Validation and server errors are handled via customized error classes;
• API is protected with authorization middleware.

Technologies

• express.js;
• nodemon;
• MongoDB;
• mongoose;
• dotenv;
• celebrate;
• bcrypt.js;
• express-rate-limit;
• winston;
• express-winston;
• helmet;
• jsonwebtoken;
• validator;
• eslint

Installation instructions:

git clone https://github.com/AnastasiiaUferova/movies-explorer-api.git

npm install 

npm run start — starts the server;

npm run dev — starts the server with hot-reload;

Future project development

Deploy the project at the cloud server so it'll be available together with the frontend part via URL.