Forum Clone - Backend

The Backend api for the forum / social media website. Built with ExpressJS, NodeJS and MongoDB.

Hosted on AWS Elastic Beanstalk, with the database hosted on MongoDB Atlas.

Technologies

• ExpressJS - Backend framework
• NodeJS
• MongoDB - NoSQL database
• Monk - Mongodb wrapper
• Typescript
• CryptoJS - Password hashing
• uuid - Creates UUIDs
• Helmet - Request security

Available Scripts

In the project directory, you can run:

npm run start

Runs the app on the specified port.

npm run compile

Compiles the app to the build directory.