Simplefol.io

This is the API for Simplefol.io. If you'd like to learn more about the site, check out the front end repo.

Technology

Built with Node/Express/Mongo/Mongoose.

API Documentation

Right now the API is not open to outside requests, but it contains the following end points (all within the /api/users router):

• POST / - create user account (username and password in req.body)
• POST /login - login (username and password in req.body)
• POST /refresh - refresh authToken
• GET / - return user account info (portfolio and watchlist)
• PUT /portfolio - edit user portfolio
• PUT /watchlist - edit user watchlist

Usage & Installation

After making a local clone of this repo, run npm install and then npm start to get the server running. You'll need to run MongoDB locally, and there are two environmental variables that you'll need to add to a .env file. The first is the JWT_SECRET which can be any string that you'd like. And the second optional variable is TEST_DATABASE_URL if you'd like the tests to be executed somewhere other than your local database. You can see all config variables in the config.js file in the root directory.

If you're just adding the JWT_SECRET, you'll create a file called .env in the root directory and in it put something like this JWT_SECRET=myjwtsecret