README.md

PicStir

Picture sharing social media application. Enables user to post pictures, like pictures and chat with other members.

Screencasts

• Home Page

• Chats

More screenshots in screencasts/ directory.

Features

• React: Frontend built on React.

• Routing, Redux: Has React routing and Redux functionality.

• ES9: latest ECMAScript for API code

• NoSQL database: MongoDB object data modeling using Mongoose

• Socket Messaging: Socket.io

• Authentication and authorization: using passport

• Validation: request data validation using Joi

• Logging: using winston and morgan

• Testing: unit and integration tests using Jest

• Error handling: centralized error handling mechanism

• API documentation: with swagger-jsdoc and swagger-ui-express

• Process management: advanced production process management using PM2

• Dependency management: with Yarn

• Environment variables: using dotenv and cross-env

• Security: set security HTTP headers using helmet

• Santizing: sanitize request data against xss and query injection

• CORS: Cross-Origin Resource-Sharing enabled using cors

• Compression: gzip compression with compression

• CI: continuous integration with Travis CI

• Docker support

• Code coverage: using coveralls

• Code quality: with Codacy

• Git hooks: with husky and lint-staged

• Linting: with ESLint and Prettier

• Editor config: consistent editor configuration using EditorConfig

Getting Started

Installation

Clone the repo:

git clone https://github.com/Vedant1202/picstir.git
cd picstir

For Frontend

Open up a terminal and

cd frontend  # for frontend setup

Install the dependencies:

yarn install

Install the dependencies:

```bash
yarn install

Running the application

yarn start

Runs the app in the development mode.
Open http://localhost:3000 to view it in the browser.

The page will reload if you make edits.
You will also see any lint errors in the console.

yarn test

Launches the test runner in the interactive watch mode.
See the section about running tests for more information.

yarn build

Builds the app for production to the build folder.
It correctly bundles React in production mode and optimizes the build for the best performance.

The build is minified and the filenames include the hashes.
Your app is ready to be deployed!

See the section about deployment for more information.

For Backend

Open up a terminal and

cd backend  # for backend setup


Set the environment variables: 

```bash
cp .env.example .env

# open .env and modify the environment variables (if needed)

Commands

Running locally:

yarn dev

Running in production:

yarn start

Testing:

# run all tests
yarn test

# run all tests in watch mode
yarn test:watch

# run test coverage
yarn coverage

Docker:

# run docker container in development mode
yarn docker:dev

# run docker container in production mode
yarn docker:prod

# run all tests in a docker container
yarn docker:test

Linting:

# run ESLint
yarn lint

# fix ESLint errors
yarn lint:fix

# run prettier
yarn prettier

# fix prettier errors
yarn prettier:fix

Project Structure

frontend\
 |--src\
  |--assets\         # Static assets
  |--components\     # React element components
  |--controllers\    # Logic controllers (controller layer)
  |--pages\          # React page components
  |--redux\          # Redux config (data layer)
  |--util\           # Utility functions
  |--App.js          # App entry point
 |--public\
  |--uploads\        # Static uploads from server (this has to be done on a cloud or local file-server but for demonstratation purposes, I've put it here)
   |--posts\         # Post images storage
   |--profile\       # Profile pictures storage

backend\
 |--src\
  |--config\         # Environment variables and configuration related things
  |--controllers\    # Route controllers (controller layer)
  |--docs\           # Swagger files
  |--middlewares\    # Custom express middlewares
  |--models\         # Mongoose models (data layer)
  |--routes\         # Routes
  |--services\       # Business logic (service layer)
  |--sockets\        # Sockets logic (communication layer)
  |--utils\          # Utility classes and functions
  |--validations\    # Request data validation schemas
  |--app.js          # Express app
  |--index.js        # App entry point

screencasts\         # contains screencasts and screenshots of application

API Documentation

To view the list of available APIs and their specifications, run the server and go to http://localhost:4000/v1/docs in your browser. This documentation page is automatically generated using the swagger definitions written as comments in the route files.

API Endpoints

List of available routes:

Auth routes:
POST /v1/auth/register - register
POST /v1/auth/login - login
POST /v1/auth/refresh-tokens - refresh auth tokens
POST /v1/auth/forgot-password - send reset password email
POST /v1/auth/reset-password - reset password

User routes:
POST /v1/users - create a user
GET /v1/users - get all users
GET /v1/users/:userId - get user
PATCH /v1/users/:userId - update user
DELETE /v1/users/:userId - delete user

Post routes:
POST /v1/posts - create a post
GET /v1/posts - get all posts
GET /v1/posts/:postId - get post
PATCH /v1/posts/:postId - update post
DELETE /v1/posts/postId - delete post

Post routes:
POST /v1/likes - like a post
DELETE /v1/likes - remove like

Message routes:
POST /v1/messages - create a message
GET /v1/messages - get all messages
GET /v1/messages/:messageId - get message\

Error Handling

The app has a centralized error handling mechanism.

Controllers should try to catch the errors and forward them to the error handling middleware (by calling next(error)). For convenience, you can also wrap the controller inside the catchAsync utility wrapper, which forwards the error.

const catchAsync = require('../utils/catchAsync');

const controller = catchAsync(async (req, res) => {
  // this error will be forwarded to the error handling middleware
  throw new Error('Something wrong happened');
});

The error handling middleware sends an error response, which has the following format:

{
  "code": 404,
  "message": "Not found"
}

When running in development mode, the error response also contains the error stack.

The app has a utility ApiError class to which you can attach a response code and a message, and then throw it from anywhere (catchAsync will catch it).

For example, if you are trying to get a user from the DB who is not found, and you want to send a 404 error, the code should look something like:

const httpStatus = require('http-status');
const ApiError = require('../utils/ApiError');
const User = require('../models/User');

const getUser = async (userId) => {
  const user = await User.findById(userId);
  if (!user) {
    throw new ApiError(httpStatus.NOT_FOUND, 'User not found');
  }
};

Validation

Request data is validated using Joi. Check the documentation for more details on how to write Joi validation schemas.

The validation schemas are defined in the src/validations directory and are used in the routes by providing them as parameters to the validate middleware.

const express = require('express');
const validate = require('../../middlewares/validate');
const userValidation = require('../../validations/user.validation');
const userController = require('../../controllers/user.controller');

const router = express.Router();

router.post('/users', validate(userValidation.createUser), userController.createUser);

Authentication

To require authentication for certain routes, you can use the auth middleware.

const express = require('express');
const auth = require('../../middlewares/auth');
const userController = require('../../controllers/user.controller');

const router = express.Router();

router.post('/users', auth(), userController.createUser);

These routes require a valid JWT access token in the Authorization request header using the Bearer schema. If the request does not contain a valid access token, an Unauthorized (401) error is thrown.

Generating Access Tokens:

An access token can be generated by making a successful call to the register (POST /v1/auth/register) or login (POST /v1/auth/login) endpoints. The response of these endpoints also contains refresh tokens (explained below).

An access token is valid for 30 minutes. You can modify this expiration time by changing the JWT_ACCESS_EXPIRATION_MINUTES environment variable in the .env file.

Refreshing Access Tokens:

After the access token expires, a new access token can be generated, by making a call to the refresh token endpoint (POST /v1/auth/refresh-tokens) and sending along a valid refresh token in the request body. This call returns a new access token and a new refresh token.

A refresh token is valid for 30 days. You can modify this expiration time by changing the JWT_REFRESH_EXPIRATION_DAYS environment variable in the .env file.

Authorization

The auth middleware can also be used to require certain rights/permissions to access a route.

const express = require('express');
const auth = require('../../middlewares/auth');
const userController = require('../../controllers/user.controller');

const router = express.Router();

router.post('/users', auth('manageUsers'), userController.createUser);

In the example above, an authenticated user can access this route only if that user has the manageUsers permission.

The permissions are role-based. You can view the permissions/rights of each role in the src/config/roles.js file.

If the user making the request does not have the required permissions to access this route, a Forbidden (403) error is thrown.

Logging

Import the logger from src/utils/logger.js. It is using the Winston logging library.

Logging should be done according to the following severity levels (ascending order from most important to least important):

const logger = require('<path to src>/utils/logger');

logger.error('message'); // level 0
logger.warn('message'); // level 1
logger.info('message'); // level 2
logger.http('message'); // level 3
logger.verbose('message'); // level 4
logger.debug('message'); // level 5

In development mode, log messages of all severity levels will be printed to the console.

In production mode, only info, warn, and error logs will be printed to the console.
It is up to the server (or process manager) to actually read them from the console and store them in log files.
This app uses pm2 in production mode, which is already configured to store the logs in log files.

Note: API request information (request url, response code, timestamp, etc.) are also automatically logged (using morgan).

Custom Mongoose Plugins

The app also contains 2 custom mongoose plugins that you can attach to any mongoose model schema. You can find the plugins in src/models/plugins.js.

const mongoose = require('mongoose');
const { toJSON, paginate } = require('./plugins');

const userSchema = mongoose.Schema(
  {
    /* schema definition here */
  },
  { timestamps: true }
);

userSchema.plugin(toJSON);
userSchema.plugin(paginate);

const User = mongoose.model('User', userSchema);

toJSON

The toJSON plugin applies the following changes in the toJSON transform call:

• removes __v, createdAt, updatedAt, and any schema path that has private: true
• replaces _id with id

paginate

The paginate plugin adds the paginate static method to the mongoose schema.

Adding this plugin to the User model schema will allow you to do the following:

const queryUsers = async (filter, options) => {
  const users = await User.paginate(filter, options);
  return users;
};

The filter param is a regular mongo filter.

The options param can have the following (optional) fields:

const options = {
  sortBy: 'name:desc',
  limit: 5,
  page: 2,
};

The paginate method returns a Promise, which fulfills with an object having the following properties:

{
  "results": [],
  "page": 2,
  "limit": 5,
  "totalPages": 10,
  "totalResults": 48
}

Linting

Linting is done using ESLint and Prettier.

In this app, ESLint is configured to follow the Airbnb JavaScript style guide with some modifications. It also extends eslint-config-prettier to turn off all rules that are unnecessary or might conflict with Prettier.

To modify the ESLint configuration, update the .eslintrc.json file. To modify the Prettier configuration, update the .prettierrc.json file.

To prevent a certain file or directory from being linted, add it to .eslintignore and .prettierignore.

To maintain a consistent coding style across different IDEs, the project contains .editorconfig

To - Do

• Add profile picture upload
• Retrieve members for new chat creation
• Update and Delete posts (backend)
• Update and Delete posts (frontend)
• Create new chat room
• Isolate chats in separate chat rooms
• Add notifications for new messages

Contributing

Contributions are more than welcome! Please check out the contributing guide.

License

MIT