Challenge goal: The purpose of this challenge is to give an overall understanding of a backend application. You’ll be implementing a simplified version of news provider API. The concepts that you’re going to apply are:

• REST architecture;
• Authentication and permissions;
• Data modeling and migrations;
• SQL database;
• Query optimization;
• Serialization;
• Production builds.

Target level: This is an all around challenge that cover both juniors and experience devs based on the depth of how the concepts were applied.

Final accomplishment: By the end of this challenge you’ll have a production ready API.

• Clear instructions on how to run the application in development mode
• Clear instructions on how to create production builds
• A good API documentation or collection
• Models created using Objection.js
• Login API: /api/login
• Sign-up API: /api/sign-up
• Administrator restricted APIs:
  • CRUD /api/admin/authors
  • CRUD /api/admin/articles
• List article endpoint /api/articles?category=:slug with the following response:

[
  {
    "author": {
      "name": "Author Name",
      "picture": "https://picture.url"
    },
    "category": "Category",
    "title": "Article title",
    "summary": "This is a summary of the article"
  },
  ...
]

• Article detail endpoint /api/articles/:id with different responses for anonymous and logged users:

  Anonymous

  {
    "author": {
      "name": "Author Name",
      "picture": "https://picture.url"
    },
    "category": "Category",
    "title": "Article title",
    "summary": "This is a summary of the article",
    "firstParagraph": "<p>This is the first paragraph of this article</p>"
  }

  Logged user

  {
    "author": {
      "name": "Author Name",
      "picture": "https://picture.url"
    },
    "category": "Category",
    "title": "Article title",
    "summary": "This is a summary of the article",
    "firstParagraph": "<p>This is the first paragraph of this article</p>",
    "body": "<div><p>Second paragraph</p><p>Third paragraph</p></div>"
  }

• Database: docker-compose up will start the PostgreSQL DB
• yarn dev is configured to start the app.js using nodemon