Nodejs social media application. Behind the scene it uses Nodejs, Express and MongoDB, see https://bechat-app.herokuapp.com/ to use the application in staging environment.

NodeJs - A JavaScript runtime environment
Express - A NodeJs framework
MongoDB - A NoSQL database

to setup this project, run the following commands on your terminal

1. to clone the project `git clone https://github.com/sambayour/BetChat`
2. navigate to the project directory `cd BetChat`
3. install neccesary packages, modules `npm install`
4. create a `.env` file and copy the content of `env.example` to it. (remember to replace the variables with your own details).
5. to run the project `npm start`

6. using POSTMAN you can use this default url of `http://localhost:5000`
7. find `BetChat.postman_collection.json` in the project root directory for the postman colllection.

I recommend that you use POSTMAN for testing this api or you can hook it up with any front-end application.

##Endpoints

Register {POST} http://betchat-app.herokuapp.com/api/auth/register

Login {POST} http://betchat-app.herokuapp.com/api/auth/login

Add Post {POST} http://betchat-app.herokuapp.com/api/post

Get Post {GET} http://betchat-app.herokuapp.com/api/posts

My Profile {GET} http://betchat-app.herokuapp.com/api/users/621e7b3b6fb43bdd5eec0ec8

If you are running the application locally, replace http://betchat-app.herokuapp.com with your localhost url in the endpoint.

Samuel Olubayo