Odinstagram (Instagram-like social app)

This is a backend implementation of The Odin Project's full stack Odin-Book project.

It is the final project in the Odin Project's curriculum, and together with Messaging App, is the culmination of everything I've learned during the course.

Visitors can sign up locally, post images, change their avatar, follow other users, comment on posts, and like posts.

Check out the app's frontend, a React Router app.

Some notable features

These are highlights of the backend only.

• Endpoints implemented according to JSON:API v1.1.
• Local user creation and authorization using PassportJS
• A Jest + supertest test suite for all endpoints, which uses MongoMemoryServer to set up and tear down a test database.
• Error handling with appropriate HTTP status codes and form validation
• Includes a script that feeds the database with fake users, posts, comments, and likes using Faker.
• MongodDB aggregate pipelines and pagination
• Automatically posts a random post every hour on average to make the network feel alive.

Usage

Create a new MongoDB Atlas cluster. Add the following environment variables to an .env file or supply them to your host:

• MONGODB_CONNECTION_STRING - Your MongoDB connection string
• JWT_SECRET_KEY - Newly created random key
• SESSION_SECRET - Newly created random secret
• CORS_ORIGIN - Domain of your frontend (or wildcard * for testing purposes)
• NODE_ENV = 'production' - seeds the database

Clone the repo and install dependencies npm i, then run npm start.