Backend for a blog application

Overview

This repo contains the whole backend for the blog application. Frontend can be found here.

Technologies

• Node.js v8
• Express.js
• MongoDB

MongoDB

Keep in mind that this application uses MongoDB, which should be installed on your local machine. Run mongod and mongo, then import sample data:

 > mongod
 > mongo
 > mongoimport --db test-database --collection posts --file mongo-import.json

where test-database is a name of the database and posts is a collection name.

To make text search (by title or post's content) available, you have to create text indexes.

1. Run Mongo shell

mongo

2. Select a proper database

use test-database

3. Create text index on posts collection

db.posts.createIndex({title: "text", content: "text"})

Run server

1. Go to the project directory

2. Install all dependencies

   npm install

3. Run server

   node server.js

Server should log that it's listening on localhost and specific port (5000 by default).

Run tests

From your project directory run only one command:

npm testx

Roadmap

There is a couple of things, which need to be improved:

• posts collection: creating, deleting and updating posts
• users collection: the whole CRUD of users
• tests for above points