Images

A small service that processes images into different sizes and performs extra CRUD operations

Main Tools and packages

1. Typescript
2. Express
3. PG(node-postgres)
4. Multer
5. Sharp
6. Express-validator

Links

• Postman Collection
• Heroku

Initializing

• Start by downloading or cloning the project.
• Add the env variables as shown in the .env_example.

Running the app

1. docker-compose :

• Delete the DATABASE_URL from the .env file.
• Run docker-compose up inside the terminal.

2. Without docker-compose :

• Run npm i to install all the necessary dependencies.
• Run npm run migrate inside the terminal.
• Run npm run dev inside the terminal

Commands

a list of all the available commands

• npm run dev : start the server.
• npm run build : compile to js.
• npm run migrate : creates the images table.
• npm start : start the server after compiling to js.
• npm run test: run all test suits.

PS: the migrate command also removes all rows from the db table this was added to avoid any issues that stem from saving images on heroku.