Devcamper

Devcamper is an NodeJS based REST API to manage bootcamps

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Features

• Users Perspective
  • Can view the bootcamp and thier courses
  • Pagination
  • Advance filtering of bootcamps,courses,review
  • Can provide review and rating for bootcamp
• Publisher Perspective(Owner of particular bootcamp)
  • Can perform CRUD operation on a bootcamp which is owned by him/her
  • Authentication and Authorization for security
  • Can upload image of bootcamp
• Admin Perspective
  • Can perform CRUD operation on any bootcamp,courses,publisher,Users
• Security perspective
  • Rate limiting applied to prevent DDos
  • XSS attack prevented
  • Prevent No-SQL injection by sanitizing the incoming requests
  • HTTP parameter pollution prevented
  • More security headers added with each response

Limitation

• Publisher can have only one bootcamp
• Publisher cant review any bootcamp including which they own.

Technologies Used

• NodeJS (Javascript Runtime)
• ExpressJS (NodeJS Framework)
• MongoDB (NOSQL Database)
• Mongoose(Object Data Mapper)
• BcryptJS(Password Hashing)
• JSON-WEB_TOKEN (For Authorization)
• Express-fileupload (Handling file uploads)
• Nodemailer (Handling emails)
• * Various Security Packages to Make API Secure *

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Enviroment Variables

Place your .env file in root of project

NODE_ENV=development
PORT = 5000

MONGO_URI= *Mongo DB connection string*

GEOCODER_API_KEY = *Geocoder API Key*
GEOCODER_PROVIDER = *Provider Name for eg : mapquest,google etc*

JWT_SECRET = *JWT secret*

SMTP_HOST_NAME= *SMTP host name for sending email*
SMTP_PORT=*Port number*
SMTP_USER=*User name*
SMTP_PASS=*user password*
FROM_EMAIL=*Your email*
FROM_NAME=*Your Name*

Run and Build

*Starts the server on PORT 5000 with nodemon*
npm run dev
*Starts the server with node on PORT 5000*
npm run start

Extensive documentation for the API is here