A backend REST API for a social media platform with basic CRUD operations for users and posts.

This project is a backend REST API for a social media platform built using Node.js, Express, and MongoDB. It provides API endpoints to perform basic CRUD operations on user profiles and posts.

• Create a new user profile
• Retrieve a list of all user profiles
• Retrieve a single user profile by ID
• Update a user profile
• Delete a user profile
• Create a new post
• Retrieve a list of all posts
• Retrieve a single post by ID
• Update a post
• Delete a post

Before running the application, make sure you have the following software installed:

• Node.js
• MongoDB

1. Clone the repository: https://github.com/shubhamsarkar2587/social-media-rest-api.git

2. Install the dependencies:

3. Set up the MongoDB connection:

• Create a MongoDB database.
• Update the MongoDB connection URL in the .env file with your database information:

mongodb+srv://myuser:[email protected]/mydatabase?retryWrites=true&w=majority

4. Start the application: npm start

Once the application is running, you can use a REST API client to interact with the following endpoints:

• GET /users/:userId: Get a single user profile by ID.

• PUT /users/:id: Update a user profile by ID.

• DELETE /users/:id: Delete a user profile by ID.

• FOLLOW USER /users/:userId/follow: Follow user by ID.

• UNFOLLOW USER /users/:userId/follow: Unfollow user by ID.

• GET /posts/:userId: Get a list of all posts.

• POST /posts: Create a new post.

• PUT /posts/:id: Update a post by ID.

• DELETE /posts/:id: Delete a post by ID.

Make sure to include the necessary request headers and parameters as specified in the API documentation.

Contributions are welcome! If you find any issues or want to enhance the functionality of this application, feel free to open a pull request.

This project is licensed under the MIT License.