Backend-assessment API

🚀 🔥 A RESTful API for blogging platform that allows users to create, read, update and delete (CRUD) 📕📗📘📙 blogs, The API also support user authentication and authorization, allowing users to create and manage their own blog.

📄 Documentation

https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/24272627/2s93m1aPuo

✨ Features

• Secure your API using 🔒 Helmet and 🛡️ Express Mongo Sanitize.

• Optimize and improve API performance using 🚀 PM2 process manager.

• Scale your API by creating a cluster with PM2. 🌐

📋 Prerequisites

To run the API, make sure you have the following installed on your system:

• 🟢 Node.js (version X.X.X)

• 🍃 MongoDB (version X.X.X)

🚀 Installation

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone git@github.com:MeetMuaz/backend-assessment.git
   

2. Navigate to the project directory:

   cd backend-assessment 
   

3. Install the dependencies:

   npm install
   

4. Create a .env file in the root directory and provide the necessary environment variables:

   
   PORT=3000
   
   MONGO_URI=mongodb://localhost:27017/blog
   
   JWT_SECRET=your_secret_key
   
   

   Replace the values with your desired configuration.

5. Start the API:

   npm start
   

   This will start the API server at http://localhost:3000.

🔒 Security

This API uses the following security measures:

• Helmet: Helmet helps secure your Express.js application by setting various HTTP headers. It provides protection against common security vulnerabilities.

• Express Mongo Sanitize: Express Mongo Sanitize helps prevent NoSQL injection attacks by sanitizing user-supplied data before interacting with the MongoDB database.

🚀 Optimization with PM2

PM2 is a process manager for Node.js applications that helps optimize performance and manage application processes. To start the API with PM2, follow these steps:

1. Install PM2 globally (if not already installed):

   npm install -g pm2
   

2. Start the API with PM2:

   pm2 start app.js --name blogging-api
   

   This will start the API using PM2 and assign it the name blogging-api.

3. Monitor API logs:

   pm2 logs blogging-api
   

   Use this command to monitor the logs and troubleshoot any issues.

🌐 Creating a Cluster with PM2

To improve performance and scalability, you can create a cluster with PM2 to run multiple instances of the API. Follow these steps:

1. Stop the existing API process (if running):

   pm2 stop blogging-api
   

2. Create a cluster of API instances:

   pm2 start app.js -i <num_instances> --name blogging-api
   

   Replace <num_instances> with the desired number of instances to run in the cluster.

3. Monitor the cluster:

   pm2 monit blogging-api
   

   Use this command to monitor the cluster and view resource usage.

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