A Restful API for a simple blog application with Node(NestJS).

Description

This rest api developed with leveraging the power of NestJS, a progressive Node.js framework for building efficient, reliable and scalable server-side applications. This API provides the basic CRUD operations for a simple blog application. The API is secured with JWT authentication and authorizatiion. The api also has real-time functionality with the help of websockets. And the data is stored in a Postgresql database using prisma(ORM).

Key Features

• JWT Authentication and Authorization
• Real-time Notification system with websockets(Socket.io)
• CRUD operations for blog Articles
• CRUD operations for comments
• CRUD operations for users
• Follow/Unfollow users
• Reacting to articles (Like and Unlike)

Technologies

• Nodejs
• NestJS (Node.js framework)
• Postgresql (Database)
• Prisma (ORM)
• JWT (Authentication and Authorization)
• Websockets
• Socket.io (websockets library)

Installation

$ npm install

Running the app

# development make sure you have working env variables in .env.example exported 
$ npm run start:dev 

References

• NestJS
• Prisma
• Socket.io