A Quora clone API was built using javascript modern tools and frameworks like Nodejs, Expressjs, and MongoDB and deployed to Render ( a unified cloud to build and run all your apps and websites with free TLS certificates, global CDN, private networks and auto deploys from Git ) to make it available to users for their use

APIs can be either public or private. Public APIs are open to the public and can be accessed by anyone, while private APIs are restricted to specific users or applications.

CRUD (Create, Read, Update And Delete)

• User authentication and registration: Allow users to create an account, log in, and manage their profile
• Question and answer functionality: Enable users to ask and answer questions, and follow questions and topics of their interest
• Upvoting and downvoting: Allow users to vote on answers, comments, and questions to indicate their quality and relevance.
• Search functionality: Enable users to search for questions, topics, or users of their interest.
• Notifications: Notify users about updates to their followed questions, answers, or topics.
• Social sharing: Allow users to share questions and answers on social media platforms.
• Analytics: Provide analytics on user engagement, content performance, and other metrics to help improve the app's performance
• Admin functionality: Enable app administrators to manage user accounts, content, and settings, and to enforce community guidelines.

Hosted on Render live

• Nodejs
• Expressjs
• MongoDB
• Mongoose
• JSON Web Tokens

add a new config.env into config folder, then modify to your environment variables, mongodb uri, set your JWT_SECRET and SMTP variables

NODE_ENV=development
PORT=5000

MONGO_URI=
MONGO_URI_LOCAL=
MONGO_USERNAME=
MONGO_PASSWORD=



FILE_UPLOAD_PATH= ./public/uploads
MAX_FILE_UPLOAD=1000000

JWT_SECRET=kjhguiokss
JWT_EXPIRE=30d
JWT_COOKIE_EXPIRE=30

SMTP_HOST=smtp.mailtrap.io
SMTP_PORT=
SMTP_EMAIL=
SMTP_PASSWORD=
FROM_EMAIL=
FROM_NAME=

Install all the dependecies

yarn

Install nodemon globally npm install -g nodemon

yarn dev