A simple social network example in Node.js for the HackYourFuture course.

To install and run the project, follow these steps:

1. Clone the Git project off of GitHub:

git clone [email protected]:Mickael-van-der-Beek/instabook.git

2. Browse to the project folder in your terminal

cd instabook

3. Build the Docker image

docker-compose build node

4. Start the Docker container

docker-compose up node

Every time you add a Node.js dependency, you'll need to rerun the step 3. and 4.

For this project, the following technologies will be used:

• Node.js, back-end language
• Express, web server
• PostgreSQL, database server
• PG, database client

• users table
• user(s) retrieval functions and database queries
• user creation function and database query
• user modification function and database query
• user deletion function and database query

• posts table
• post(s) retrieval functions and database queries
• post creation function and database query
• post modification function and database query
• post deletion function and database query

• comments table
• comment(s) retrieval functions and database queries
• comment creation function and database query
• comment modification function and database query
• comment deletion function and database query

• filter users by handle
• filter posts by user
• filter comments by post
• sort users by id
• sort posts by likes
• sort comments by creation date
• paginate users retrieval
• paginate posts retrieval
• paginate comments retrieval

• Index user queries
• Index post queries
• Index comment queries

• Prevent SQL injections
• Prevent race conditions

• aggregation queries
• sub-queries and CTEs
• LIKE and RegExp operators
• array operators