Quiz RESTful API

A quiz restful api with multiple and single choice options comprising of many questions in many categories. It has a public and admin route where admin can create questions and options etc.

Features

CRUD (Create, Read, Update And Delete)

• Authentication with JWT (Reset Password with email)
  • Login (User/Admin)
  • Register
  • Forgot Password
• Admin Routes
  • CRUD Operations questions and options
  • CRUD operations for categories
  • CRUD operations for users
• Pagination and search where necessary
• API Security (NoSQL Injections, XSS Attacks, http param pollution etc)

API Documentation

Hosted on netlify: Coming Soon

Extensive and testing documentation with postman: Quiz API

Database Model

Though the diagram uses sql data type, this diagram is to show you the various collections in the mongo database.

Requirement

• NodeJS
• MongoDB

Configuration File

Rename the config/.env.example to .env, then modify to your environment variables, mongodb uri, set your JWT_SECRET and SMTP variables

NODE_ENV=development
PORT=3001

MONGO_URI=YOUR_URL

JWT_SECRET=YOUR_SECRET
JWT_EXPIRE=30d
JWT_COOKIE_EXPIRE=30

SMTP_HOST=smtp.mailtrap.io
SMTP_PORT=2525
SMTP_EMAIL=
SMTP_PASSWORD=
FROM_EMAIL=noreply@quizapp.com
FROM_NAME=QuizzApp

Email testing: use mailtrap for email testing, it's easy no stress.

Installation

Install all npm dependecies

npm install

Install nodemon globally

npm install -g nodemon

Run database seeder

• Seeder folder is _data/
• Edit the seeder file if you want to

node seeder -i

Delete all data

node seeder -d

Start web server

node run dev

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License

Developed by Reagan Ekhameye (Tech Reagan)

Reach me on twitter @techreagan