Reddit Backend Clone

A backend API built using Nodejs and TypeScript that recreates all of Reddit's basic backend functionality.

About

I built this project as a learning exercise to accomplish the following:

• Learning how to build backend systems that scale and are maintainable.
• Familiarizing myself with TypeScript usage.
• Geting better at designing and implementing complex database schemas in Relational Databases.

Getting Started

Clone the repository locally and follow these instructions:

• Make a .env file based off of the template provided in sample.env.
• Edit the values in ormconfig.json to suit your database connection.
• Install node modules using npm install
• Run the code using npm run dev

List of Features

• Comment under Comments (infinite sub-commenting)
• JWT for Authentication
• Create Users
• Create Communities
• Create Posts
• Comment under Posts
• Upvote/Downvote Comments
• Upvote/Downvote Posts
• Documentation using OpenAPI (Swagger)