Blog Back End Project

My Role

This was a solo project.

Project Description

This is a NodeJS, PostgreSQL & Express API for a hypothetical blog contributed to by many authors with extensive query parameters and tagging functionality.

Key Features

• Live solo project
• RESTful API with auth services for blog back end
• 37 endpoints
• Tested and documented via Postman
• Extensive query parameters
• Top 100 most liked posts
• Top 100 most read posts
• Tag posts
• Cached endpoints

Tech Stack

• Node.js: a JavaScript runtime.
• Knex: a query builder for PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite3, designed to be flexible, portable, and fun to use.
• Express: a fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for Node.
• bcrypt: modern(-ish) password hashing for your software and your servers.
• Postman: Postman helps you be more efficient while working with APIs. Using Postman, you can construct complex HTTP requests quickly, organize them in collections and share them with your co-workers.
• PostgreSQL: Open Source Relational Database

Available Scripts

npm server

npm start

Testing

• All endpoints have been tested and documented via Postman.

Documentation

• This app has been documented and tested via Postman.
• Postman docs were last published on 09/07/2020.
• Postman docs contain examples of all get, post, and put endpoint body submissions AND responses.

Postman Collection | BASE URL | Schema | Documentation | Endpoints