Social Media Platform

Steps to run this project:

1. Run npm i command
2. Run npm run start command

How to Make API Request

1. Use the following value in Client-Auth header Basic dGVzdENsaWVudDp0ZXN0UGFzc3dvcmQ= otherwise API's will throw unauthorized error
2. Call /user/signup request first to create your user and get the authentication token
3. Use the token value in Authorization header in following format Bearer {{token}} to call the post API's

Notes:

1. The password's are stored in plain text as the bcrypt library is currently not supported in Mac M1. For more details visit this link: kelektiv/node.bcrypt.js#868
2. Although the passwords are stored in plain text but approach to match the user credentials is taken in a similar way as they are stored in encrypted format.
3. The .env file is not supposed to commit on git repository but in order to make it work just by cloning I am committing this file