This is a node.js express API that I built to create, play around with, and demo a micro-front end application. Barker is Twitter for dogs because dogs love tweets and microfrontends.

npm install

You will need a .env file with variables for: SESSION_SECRET, APP_SECRET, and DB_HOST.

Your secret strings can be anything and to get this running locally without a hosted db you can have :memory: for your DB_HOST value.

npm run start

or

npm run debug

If you look at repositories/dao.js you will see a static method called setupDbForDev. I built this to insert seed data into the Users, Posts, and Comments table so you can get started right away.

This function is invoked in the main app.js file when the initial project is run. If you host your DB, remove this call from that file so it doesn't run every time. I built this to run locally for demo purposes so I keep it in that file for now to run each time to insert seed data.

In the seed data above, there were a few users added. You can pick one of these users and the password "123" to authenticate. Bcrypt is used to hash passwords in case you decide to allow users to create accounts later. For now, "123" is the password for the 6 seed accounts.

NOTE: "123" is not a safe password to use. This is for development/experimental purposes only.

To authenticate, send a POST request to localhost:3000/api/users/login with a request body:

{"username": "banjo", "password": "123"}

and this will get you an access-token for future requests.

After that, add an access-token header to future requests with the value you recieved in the /api/users/login POST response.

With a valid access-token header from the step above, you can now access other routes in this API.

To test, try a GET request to localhost:3000/api/users/2. You should get some user data from on of my dogs, Kahlo.