CoffeBooks - Node.js Booklist

Background

This is my course exam project for Webserver Development 1; spring 2021.

This is also similar to the PHP-Booklist as well as the Firebase Booklist

Purpose

CoffeBooks is a Node.JS Express web application that will render a list of books; which is inputted by any user.

Exam requirements:

• Basic Programing Principels

• Server CRUD should be built as APIs

• Full CRUD

• Using an Online Database (I used MongoDB)

• Authentication

• Authorization

• Back-end and Front-end should be developed separately

Development

I started by developing the backend, its APIs as well as its connection to the MongoDB cluster. I used Postman to generate Get, Post, Delete (and so forth) -requests. By this stage, there where not a single line of front-end development.

The front-end got developed as the back-end got its most important features implemented. JavaScript got used with fetch requests to call the back-end API for data. Thereafter, the front-end javascript put the data into templates and it gets shown to the user.

The project includes but is not limited to the following functionalities:

• Authentication utilizing JWT-tokens

• Appropriate Authorization for the different types of request

• BCrypt-hashing for user account security

• Full CRUD

• SPA – Single Page Application, whenever a new item is added; the page does not need to reload and data does not need to be fetched unnecessarily

• Node.JS Express server side, built as APIs

• Front-end API fetching

• MongoDB Online Database

Gui

The main page features an overview of every entry in the database

Serialization

./.env is not included in the project. Location: root folder (./)

The environment-variable file contains the following:

PORT = 5500
URI = "MongoDb_Access_Config_Key_Incluing_Password"
ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=A_random_generated_token_on_60_chars
REFRESH_TOKEN_SECRET=A_random_generated_token_on_60_chars

Licence

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