This is the a project from Coderhouse Backend Programming course

Instructions

1. Clone the repository (to learn how check this link)

2. Be sure to have NodeJS (>=18.x) and NPM installed. Test this with the commands node -v or npm -v in a terminal.

3. Install the dependencies with npm install.

4. For testing, start the server with npm run start and go to http://localhost:8080/

Dependencies

The ones marked are the ones currently used

• express : web framework.
• express-routemap : express middleware to print all registered routes in a tree structure.
• express-handlebars : handlebars view engine for express.
• socket.io : enables real-time bidirectional event-based communication.
• mongoose : MongoDB object modeling tool.
• mongoose-paginate-v2 : mongoose plugin to paginate mongoose queries.
• dotenv : loads environment variables from a .env file.
• inspirational-quotes : get inspirational quotes.
• express-session : session middleware.
• connect-mongo : MongoDB session store for Connect and Express.
• bcrypt : library to help you hash passwords.
• passport : authentication middleware for Node.js.
• passport-local : passport strategy for authenticating with a username and password.
• passport-github2 : passport strategy for authenticating with GitHub using the OAuth 2.0 API.
• passport-google-oauth20 : passport strategy for authenticating with Google using the OAuth 2.0 API.
• passport-jwt : passport strategy for authenticating with a JSON Web Token.
• express-jwt : middleware that validates JsonWebTokens and sets req.user.
• jsonwebtoken : implementation of JSON Web Tokens.
• cookie-parser : cookie parsing middleware.
• uuid : simple, fast generation of RFC4122 UUIDS.
• nodemailer : module for Node.js applications to allow easy as cake email sending.
• winston : logger for just about everything.
• colors : get colors in your node.js console.
• swagger-jsdoc : allows you to integrate swagger using JSDoc comments in your code.
• swagger-ui-express : serves auto-generated swagger-ui generated API docs from express.
• connect-flash : special area of the session used for storing messages.
• express-validator : middleware for validating data.
• sequelize : promise-based Node.js ORM for Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite and Microsoft SQL Server.
• cors : CORS is a node.js package for providing a Connect/Express middleware that can be used to enable CORS with various options.

Dev Dependencies

The ones marked are the ones currently used

• nodemon : tool that helps develop node.js based applications by automatically restarting the node application when file changes in the directory are detected.
• faker-js : generate massive amounts of fake data in the browser and node.js.

Known issues

• jwt is not being able to populate req.user from the cookies in the newest version of express-jwt, so we need to downgrade it to 6.1.0. Run:

npm uninstall express-jwt npm install express-jwt@6.1.0

• When working with thunderclient te JWT is not read from the cookie. Login in the front end and use Postman instead (copy the jwt cookie manually).

• Chat: When a chat is deleted, the user is not asign a new empty chat, it just crashes the socketIO functionality.

• Cart: The same as with chat but at least there is a sign of the error in the frontend