social-media-platform-backend

Back End Assignment - Full Time

Problem Statement

• Build APIs for a social media platform in either NodeJS or Python
• The API should support features like getting a user profile, follow a user, upload a post, delete a post, like a post, unlike a liked post, and comment on a post, create a user
• Design the database schema and implement in PostgreSQL or MongoDB

Techstack and packages Used

• NodeJS, Express, MongoDB
• jsonwebtoken, @sendgrid/mail, bcryptjs, validator, dotenv

API Endpoints

• GET:

  • /api/user/

  • /api/user/authenticate

  • /api/posts/

  • /api/posts/:id

  • /test

• POST:

  • /api/posts

  • /api/user

• PUT:

  • /api/posts/like/:id

  • /api/posts/unlike/:id

  • /api/comment/:id

  • /api/user/follow/:id

  • /api/unfollow/:id

• DELETE:

  • /api/posts/:id

Steps to build and run this project at your setup

• git clone <"project-link">
• npm i
• npm run dev

Heroku deployed link for this project

• https://social-media-platform-backend.herokuapp.com/