SOCIAL CONNECT API

This is the backend app for the Social Connect. It is a video calling app that allows users to connect with each other. It is built with NestJS and Firebase. It uses WebRTC for video calling and Socket.io for real-time communication. It also uses Redis for caching and Elasticsearch for searching.

Technologies

This API was developed with the following technologies:

• NodeJS
• NestJS
• Firebase
• Firestore
• WebRTC
• Socket.io
• Redis
• Elasticsearch

Getting Started

Pre-requisites

• Node(LTS version)
• NPM v9.0.0 or higher
• MongoDB

You can get the latest version of NodeJS from here or you can check the version you have installed on your machine by running the following command in your terminal

  node -v

You can get the latest version of NPM from here or you can check the version you have installed on your machine by running the following command in your terminal

  npm -v

Installation

Clone the project

  git clone git@github.com:vicodevv/social-connect-backend.git

Go to the project directory

  cd social-connect-backend

Install dependencies

  npm install

Run the code

  npm run dev

Testing

To run tests, run the following command

  npm run test

Entity Relationship Diagram

Authentication

This API uses JWT for authentication. To get a token, you need to register and login. The token is valid for 24 hours. You can use the token to access protected routes. To access authenticated routes, set your authorization header to Bearer [ token ]. Read postman documentation for further details

Postman Documentation

Environment Variables

To run this project, you will need to add the following environment variables to your .env file

• PORT=your port number
• MONGO_URI=your mongodb uri
• JWT_SECRET=your jwt secret

API Reference

Method	Description	Endpoints
POST	Login a user	/api/auth/login
POST	Register a user	/api/auth/register
GET	Get all users	/api/users
GET	Get a single user	/api/users/:id
POST	Create a user	/api/users
GET	Get all links	/api/links
GET	Get a single link	/api/links/:id
GET	Get all links by a user	/api/links/user/:id
POST	Create a link	/api/links/create
PUT	Update a link	/api/links/update/:id
DELETE	Delete a link	/api/links/delete/:id

Authors

• @vicodevv

License

MIT