🐬Hue🐬

Backend API for a social media application like twitter

Technologies used :

• NodeJS -- Platform
• Express -- Server
• TypeScript -- Language
• PostgreSQL -- DataBase
• TypeORM -- ORM
• Bcrypt -- Hashing
• Jwt -- Autheentication
• Redis -- Cache
• Heroku -- Deployment

Database setup

$ sudo -i -u postgres

1. Enter psql as admin .

$ psql

2. Create database user and grant all privileges

 $create database twitter;

 $create user twitter with encrypted password 'twitter';

 `swith to the newly created db and grant all privileges to the user`

 $grant all privileges on database twitter to twitter;

Installation

$ npm install

Running the app

# development
$ npm run start

# watch mode
$ npm run start:dev

# production mode
$ npm run start:prod

Test

# unit tests
$ npm run test

# e2e tests
$ npm run test:e2e

# test coverage
$ npm run test:cov