Comment section - backend

This project is inspired by Interactive comments section challenge on Frontend Mentor.

This repo is backend part of the fullstack project.

Please check comment-frontend to see frontend codes of this project

Overview

Features of this app:

• User can login and register
• This app creates refresh and access token for user authentication
• User can create, update and delete comments and replies
• User can upvote and downvote the comments and replies.
• User can vote to each comment only one time.
• Some routes and features are protected and only logged in users can access.

Built with

• Express
• Sequelize
• mysql

How to use

To use this project first run npm install and then npm start in the root of the app.

In config folder create a .en file and add these variables with the value that you want.

DB_NAME =
DB_USER =
DB_PASSWORD =
ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET =
REFRESH_TOKEN_SECRET =
ACCESS_TOKEN_EXP =

In config/allowedOrigins.js add url that you receive the requests from.