• Backend Express App
  • Table of Contents
  • Description
    • Problem Statement
    • Technologies Used
  • Installation
    • Normal Installation
    • Docker Installation
  • Testing
  • Documentation
  • Problem Solving Challenge

This is a simple REST API demonstrating the following skills and functionalities:

• CRUD operations
• Authentication
• Authorization
• Pagination
• code quality
• testing
• documentation
• deployment
• dockerization
• memoization

• Node.js
• Express.js
• Prisma ORM
• Jest
• Docker
• TypeScript
• MySQL

1. install the dependencies

npm install

2. copy the .env.example file to .env, and update the values as per your environment

# copy the .env.example file to .env
cp .env.example .env

3. setup the database

npx prisma reset
# this will run the migrations and seed the database

4. start the server

npm run start

1. copy the .env.example file to .env.

# copy the .env.example file to .env
cp .env.example .env

1. setup the database before running docker. You can either install the dependencies and run the prisma as mentioned in the normal installation or can manually run the SQL migrations and seed the database.
2. build and run the docker container

docker compose up

make sure the database in seeded before running the tests

run the following command to run the tests

npm run test

The endpoints and responses are included in postman collection in the docs folder.

The solution is in the problem-solving folder.