Twitter Clone API

Backend for Twitter Clone Client

🧑‍💻 Tech Stack

• Node.js
• Expressjs
• Mongoose (MonogDB)
• JSON Web Tokens and other nodejs libraries

🤖 Set Environment Variables

Insert all values in .env.example file and rename the file to .env

• Create a MongoDB database and paste mongo uri string or you can use mongodb locally
• Create a cloudinary account and paste API Key, Cloud name and Cloudinary Secret. This will be used for uploading photos to cloudinary
• JWT Secret can be any string

📦 Setup

To run this app locally,

$ git clone https://github.com/MuhammadWasif/twitter-clone-api.git
$ cd twitter-clone-api
$ npm install
$ npm start

Don't forget to set environment variables after cloning the repo

The app wil start on http://localhost:5000

🐟 Run with Docker

To run the container run following commands inside the directory

• Create image
  docker build -t twitter-clone-api .
• Run container
  docker run -d -p 5000:5000 --name=twitter-api twitter-clone-api

⚙️ Workflow

The API is deployed to Heroku (Platfrom as a Service) Cloud. GitHub Actions has been used for Continuous Deployment (CD)

Happy Coding!