myCourses-api

A REST API to communicate with PostgreSQL database and serve data to myCourses client.

Quickstart

npm install
npm start

API Features

• Users
  • get user info and post new users
• Courses
  • get courses associated with the currently authenticated user
  • post new courses
  • put updated course information (with user auth)
  • delete courses (with user auth)

Data Validation

• User
  • firstName is required
  • lastName is required
  • email must be correctly formatted and unique among all users
  • password is required
• Course
  • title is required
  • description is required

Security

• All passwords are hashed using bcrypt with 10 salt rounds
• Users are authenticated using basic-auth
• User authentication is required to:
  • get the active user's info
  • get courses
  • post a new course
  • put an existing course
  • delete an existing course