Jobly

Backend server for company and job search application built with Express

Full application deployed at: https://jobibly.surge.sh/

Front-end repository: https://github.com/nico-martinucci/react-jobly

Features

• RESTful API with routes for JWT authentication, companies, jobs, and users
• JSON schema request validation
• Custom object-oriented ORM-lite with custom SQL queries for each model
• Global error handler for all routes with custom errors
• 99.5% test coverage

Setting it up

1. Install dependencies:

$ npm i

2. Set up the database and test database (PostgreSQL):

$ psql -f jobly.sql

3. Add a .env file with:

PORT="3001"
SECRET_KEY=(any secret key you want)
DBI_URI="postgresql:///jobly"
DBI_TEST_URI="postgresql:///jobly_test"
PROD_BCRYPT_FACTOR="12"

(Note: For WSL/Linux, include your psql username & password along with "@localhost" in the URIs: postgresql://username:password@localhost/jobly)

4. Start the server:

$ npm start

3. View at localhost:3001

Tech

• Express.js, pg, bcrypt, JSON web tokens, JSON schema

// TODO

• Update application routes to receive more data, allowing for more robust front-end "applying" features