RESTFul Backend Node.js API with React Client

Overview

• This project involves the development of a backend API using Node.js along with a frontend React client.

• Read the blog about this project on Medium

• The API will be plugged to our frontend client, that will speak to the API through HTTP protocol.

Technologies Used

• Node.js
• React
• Bootstrap

Features

Backend

• Communicate with the backend. HTTP methods and codes.

• Request API endpoints

• Calling the CRUD(Create-Read-Update-Delete) endpoints from the client.

• Validate the input data validation with yup schema validation. (yup schema validator validates input received from body of API)

• Helmet package to improve the security of API by setting HTTP response headers.

• Using API documentation generator JSDoc to add documentation to functions.

Frontend

• Designed the frontend with reusable components.

• Styled-components

• Addition of pages using React-Router-Dom

• Created Users

• Edit User

Contributing

Contributions to the project are welcome! If you would like to contribute, please follow these guidelines:

• Fork the repository and clone it locally.

• Create a new branch for your feature or bug fix.

• Make your changes and test thoroughly.

• Commit your changes with clear and descriptive commit messages.

• Push your branch to your forked repository.

• Create a pull request with a detailed description of your changes.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License

Acknowledgements

I would like to acknowledge Wellington-Mwadali for working on the frontend part of this project.