MY BRAND REST API built with Express NodeJs Typescript and MongoDB

A fully functional REST API written in NodeJs Express and Typescript

Introduction

• This is a simple node express API that is mainly built to handle user authentication and authorization, creating, updating, commenting and liking blogs along side creating and storing messages from users to admin
• The admin has a priviledge to access 100% of all routes as the other users have acces to a limited number of routes

Requirements

NodeJS

Install global TypeScript and TypeScript Node

npm install -g typescript ts-node-dev

Getting Started

You should install MongoDB on your local machine, or use other services such as mLab or Compose

After that, you will have to replace the mongoURL with your MongoDB address in src/index.ts

Clone this repository

https://github.com/kanu-cast/mybrand-api.git .

Then install the dependencies

npm install

Start the server

Run in development mode

npm start

Automated Testing with jest (locally)

npm run test

Top technologies

NodeJs, ExpressJs, Typescript, Mongoose, MongoDB, Swagger-Ui-Express, Jest, bcrypt, JWT, PassportJs etc.