Node Assignment Solution

Contents

1. Description
2. Project Structure
3. Getting Started
4. Built With

Description

This project has been developed by Sayantan Dasgupta as per instructions given by Dipan Roy.

This REST API has a total of 4 routes. Using this we can upload an image, and divide it into different tiles, as per the tilefactor provided by the user

Project Structure

|-- build/            build files for Typescript .(gitignored)
|-- node_modules/     npm packages (gitignored)
|-- src/
  |-- config/         configs for db, swagger and other packages go here
  |-- controllers/    controller functions for every route. controllers make calls to services
  |-- dtos/           structures for various data objects defined in this directory
  |-- middlewares/    middlewares for various routes go here
  |-- models/         database schema / models go here
  |-- routes/         routes or endpoint definitions go here, routes make calls to controllers
  |-- services/       files to process and query database go here
  |-- shared/         files for extra utilities for this particular project go here
  |-- utils/          files for extra utilities for all NodeTS projects go here
  |-- app.ts          entry point of our project
|-- .env              environment variables used in the project(gitignored)
|-- .gitignore        stores files and directories to be ignored in the commits
|-- package-lock.json stores version of every package used in the project
|-- package.json      metadata of the project
|-- README.md         details and instructions go here
|-- tsconfig.json     configuration for the typescript setup of project

Getting Started

To run the api locally, follow these steps:

• clone the repository
• create the .env file with PORT, MONGO_URI, and DEBUG variables as shown in .env.example
• run npm i --save to install the packages in package.json
• run npm run dev to start the backend server

Prerequisites

• node and npm
• typescript
• postman

Built With