Twitter-Dev

Twitter_Dev Backend is a Node.js application built using Express, MongoDB, Passport.js, JWT, and AWS S3. It follows the MVC architecture, with clearly defined controllers, middleware, models, and routes to handle CRUD operations for authentication, comments, likes, and tweets. The project is deployed on AWS EC2 using GitHub Actions for CI/CD automation.

AWS-EC2

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a web service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It allows users to rent virtual machines (instances) to run their applications.

AWS-S3

Amazon Web Services(S3) is a Cloud Service used for Uploading the images of the Post created by the authenticated user.

Github-Actions

GitHub Actions is a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform that allows you to automate your build, test, and deployment pipeline.

Passport.Js

Passport is authentication middleware for Node.js.

Project Structure

Twitter_Dev_Backend
├── config              # Configuration files (e.g., database, passport configuration)
├── controllers         # Controllers for handling HTTP Requests.
├── services            # Services for handling business logic
├── middleware          # Custom middleware functions
├── models              # Mongoose models for MongoDB
├── routes              # Route definitions
└── uploads             # Directory for uploaded files (handled by AWS SDK)

Features

Authentication

• POST /api/auth/register: Register a new user.
• POST /api/auth/login: Authenticate and login a user, returning a JWT token.

Tweets

• GET /api/tweets/: Retrieve all tweets.
• POST /api/tweets/: Create a new tweet.
• GET /api/tweets/ : Retrieve a specific tweet by ID.
• PUT /api/tweets/ : Update a tweet by ID.
• DELETE /api/tweets/ : Delete a tweet by ID.

Comments

• GET /api/tweets//comments/: Retrieve all comments for a tweet.
• POST /api/tweets/comments/: Add a new comment to a tweet.
• PUT /api/tweets/comments/: Update a comment for a tweet.
• DELETE /api/tweets/comments/: Delete a comment for a tweet.

Likes

• POST /api/tweets/like: Like a tweet.
• DELETE /api/tweets/like: Unlike a tweet.

Middlewares

• authMiddleware: Middleware to verify JWT tokens and authenticate users.

• Install Dependencies

  npm install
  
  

• Set Up Enviroment Variables

PORT=3000

JWT_SECRET=your_jwt_secret_key
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=your_aws_access_key_id
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=your_aws_secret_access_key
AWS_REGION=your_aws_region

• Start the server

  npm start
  

• Access the Api

  http://localhost:3000/api/