node-project

Node js application

• that summarizes my knowledge about REST API, MongoDB usage and authentication using jsonwebtoken and passport.

• has a minimalistic style and user friendly interface

User authentication:

• done by using jsonwebtoken, its Local and Jwt Strategy. Also it uses User mongoose model to login and register new users

• uses access_token query parameter to ensure that a particular user is authenticated, e.g. /films/add?access_token=543gdfqa...

This Project uses Express and has four main Routers:

• userRouter ==> /users
• filmRouter ==> /films
• musicRouter ==> /music
• favoriteRouter ==> /favorite

Main Page: '/'

• has login and sign up button
• a little summary of the project
• has a list of main endpoints such as /films, /music

User Router:

• '/users'

  • is only accessible by admin
  • shows all the registered users in json form

• '/users/login

  • login page
  • uses html and css
  • input fields such as username and password

• '/users/login/submit'

  • returns json object with access_token

• '/users/signup'

  • user sign up page (html, css)
  • has input fields like username, password, firstname, and lastname
  • returns json object saying success

• '/users/logout'

  • redirects to main page

Films Router:

• '/films'

  • shows basic instructions
  • displays links to the main endpoints
  • a film has a title, year, genre, and poster

• '/films/show'

  • shows films selected by admin in json form

• '/films/showPretty'

  • shows films selected by admin in nice html/css form

• '/films/add'

  • is for admin to add new movies entering its title, year, genre, and poster link
  • has nice html/css form

• '/films/addApi'

  • is for admin to add new movies based on movie title fetched from IMDb API
  • user-friendly interface

• '/films/del'

  • is for admin to delete all the movies in the collection

• '/films/del/filmId'

  • is for admin to delete one specific movie with that id

• '/films/show/filmId'

  • shows one specific movie with that id in json form

Music Router:

• '/albums'

  • shows basic instructions
  • displays links to the main endpoints
  • an album has title, cover link, artist, and tracks array that has track's name, preview link, and its duration

• '/albums/search'

  • search anything related to music, e.g. song, artist, album on Deezer API
  • uses query parameter called title

• '/albums/show'

  • shows albums selected by admin in json form

• '/albums/showPretty'

  • shows albums selected by admin in nice html/css form
  • cliking on album cover will redirect you to more detailed webpage about the album

• '/albums/showPretty/albumId'

  • shows album with that id in nice html/css form

• '/albums/add'

  • is for admin to add new albums entering album id retrieved from Deezer API using /search endpoint
  • has nice html/css form

• '/albums/del'

  • is for admin to delete all the music albums in the collection

• '/albums/del/albumId'

  • is for admin to delete one specific album with that id

• '/albums/show/filmId'

  • shows one specific album with that id in json form

Favorite Router:

This is where user can select their favorite movies using movie Ids

• '/favorites'

  • shows basic instructions
  • displays links to the main ndpoints

• '/favorites/show'

  • shows favorites films of the user in json form

• '/favorites/showPretty'

  • shows favorite films selected by the user in nice html/css form

• '/favorites/add'

  • is for user to add new movies entering its id
  • has nice html/css form

• '/films/del'

  • is for user to delete all the favorite movies in the collection

• '/films/del/filmId'

  • is for user to delete one favorite movie with that id

Also, this project uses jQuery, Bootstrap4 for rendering most of the pages

To run the project, do the following:

$ npm start

From another tab for mongodb directory, type:

$ mongod --dbpath=data --bind_ip 127.0.0.1