equimper / youtube-makeanodejsapi

Youtube tutorial for making a NodeJS REST API with MongoDB

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.

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Part 1, Setup the tools

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To add

• editorconfig
• express
• eslint
• babel
• webpack 2

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Part 2, Setup of the middlewares and mongodb

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Part 9, Update a post if author of it

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• Create the route and controller
• Create a validation field

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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 :)

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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

youtube-makeanodejsapi's Issues

Cannot find \dist\index.bundle.js'

Hello,
I have followed the steps in your tutorial FIVE times, but it fails to create the dist directory and adding the index.bundel.js to it.

Error: Cannot find module 'C:\Users\Mowzey\Documents\RestApi\dist\index.bundle.js'
How can i fix this?
thank you

Cannot set headers after they are sent to the client

In user.controller the login should not send the seponse and then return next(). This causes the error "Cannot set headers after they are sent to the client ".

it should be:

export function login(req, res, next) {
if (req.user) return res.status(200).json(req.user)
next()
}

instead of

export function login(req, res, next) {
res.status(200).json(req.user)
return next()
}