Make a NodeJS rest api

Why do this tutorial

I was searching a long time ago about how to make my own boilerplate for nodejs. I hate when I take something from someone else and don't know what happen.

I create this tutorial for helping people to make their own rest api and maybe use it as your boilerplate

Features

This rest api gonna be for a Medium like website. This is a simple blog place where people can follow author and create a post. People can like the post and get notification when a user they follow create a new one.

• Authentication local + jwt
• User can create a post
• User can delete is own post and update it
• User can follow an other one
• User get notification on following new post
• User can like a post
• User can see all the post they like

Tech use

I use the latest feature of javascript. ES6 + ES7, we compile with the help of babel and webpack v2.

Part 1, Setup the tools

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To add

• editorconfig
• express
• eslint
• babel
• webpack 2

Part 2, Setup of the middlewares and mongodb

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• Add mongoose, body-parser, morgan, compression, helmet
• Setup config folder
• Setup constants

Part 3, Users creation

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• Create the user model, controller and routes
• Install robomongo, postman
• Add joi for validation with express-validation

Part 4, Add bcrypt and passport

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• Add rimraf and clean dist on webpack build
• Crypt the user password
• Create the localStrategy with passport
• Can log a user

Part 5, Add passport-jwt and send less information about the user

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• Create a secret password for the jwt
• Add passport-jwt and create the strategy
• Add jsonswebtoken library
• How can I send less info to the front end ? Like I don't want to send the password

Part 6, Creation of a post

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• Create the post model
• Add the user id as the author
• Resolve error I did with joi

Part 7, Get a post by his id

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• Create the controller, route
• Add http-status library
• Populate User
• User toAuthJSON vs toJSON

Part 8, Get all posts with a list statics method

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• Talk about the repos
• Create the controller
• Create a list statics method on post

Part 9, Update a post if author of it

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• Create the route and controller
• Create a validation field

Part 10, Delete a post if author of it

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• Create the route and controller
• Show the authorization work
• Add prettier and show the magic :)

Part 11, User can favorite a post if auth + increment the favoriteCount

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• Create model methods for both user and post
• Add the increment/decrement statics on post

Part 12, Send if favorite or not with post for help the life of the front-end

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• Make route auth
• Make user method
• Make post controller work with the favorite