gatraenggar / dicoding-forum-api

Forum-like application on Rest API using Hapi.js. A project submission for Dicoding's Becoming Backend Expert module.

Dicoding-Forum-API

What is this ?

A forum-like application on Rest API using Hapi.js. This app provides an interface for users to have an authentication with their account, post a thread like Twitter, and let anybody to comment & reply the thread. It is defined as the completion criteria of project submission for Dicoding's Becoming Backend Expert module.

This project is an implementation of the topics being taught in the learning module. The module covers about automation-testing, clean architecture, CI/CD using GitHub Action & AWS, security (eg. SQL injection, DDoS attack, Man in The Middle), and server scalability.

How to test this in local environment ?

Installation

1. git clone https://github.com/gatraenggar/dicoding-forum-api.git

2. cd dicoding-forum-api

3. npm install to install the all dependencies needed

Configuration

4. Create two PostgreSQL databases for production & testing

5. Rename test_example.json to test.json. Then change the db_user, db_password, & db_name (for testing database only) value in that test.json file based on yours

6. Rename example.env to .env. Then change the db_user, db_password, & db_name value in that .env file based on yours

6.1. Change access_token_key and refresh_token_key in .env file with your generated encryption keys

You can generate your own encryption keys with following steps:

1. Enter this site https://www.allkeysgenerator.com/Random/Security-Encryption-Key-Generator.aspx
2. Choose Encryption key
3. Check the Hex ? field
4. Click the 512-bit option
5. Click Get new results button, then copy the generated string to the config file

Run the App

7. npm run migrate:test up to migrate/create the database table

8. npm run test:watch to run the test