Tree-Thoughts (Back-end) 🌲

A study project on NodeJS with Express

Idea: 💡

Here will be concentrated the API from Tree-Thoughts (Front-end) project. In it will be the integration between the thoughts cards and the database.
This project will be using NodeJs with the library Express.js following REST Design Pattern.

Functionalities:

• Register, get and update user data;
• User authentication (JWT Token);
• Register, delete, get and update thoughts cards;

Running the project: 🚀

To run and view the project in development mode, you will need to follow the next steps.

Prerequisites:

The tools necessary for the project to work will be listed below.

• NodeJS versão 14
  NodeJS installation Guide.

Installing dependencies:

Run the command to install the project dependencies.

npm install

Configuring env file:

To configure the project's environment variable file, follow the steps below:

• Step 1- Create an .env file at the root of the project;
• Step 2- Copy the contents of the .env.example file to your new .env file;
• Step 3- Change the content informing your database connection data and TCP port for project execution

After the env setup, proceed with the steps below ✌

Running database structure:

⚠ Database structure commands should only be executed at the initial project setup or when its structure is changed ⚠

The scripts below build the database structure

npx sequelize db:migrate

Command to create structure

npm sequelize db:seed:all

Command to upload standard data in defined tables

Running the project:

The scripts below run the project build.

npm run server

Command to run the project in development mode

npm run watch

Command to run the project in watch development mode

Conclusion: 👍

After the first configuration of the project following the steps above, the next few times, it will only be necessary to run the command to start the server in development mode

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Links: 🌐

Sequelize:
Sequelize docs
Datatypes

Express:
Express docs
Rest API

JWT:
JSON Web Tokens docs
JWT NodeJS

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License

This project is licensed under the [MIT] license - see the LICENSE.md file for details