Make a NodeJS rest api

Why do this tutorial

I was searching a long time ago about how to make my own boilerplate for nodejs. I hate when I take something from someone else and don't know what happen.

I create this tutorial for helping people to make their own rest api and maybe use it as your boilerplate

Features

This rest api gonna be for a Medium like website. This is a simple blog place where people can follow author and create a post. People can like the post and get notification when a user they follow create a new one.

• Authentication local + jwt
• User can create a post
• User can delete is own post and update it
• User can follow an other one
• User get notification on following new post
• User can like a post
• User can see all the post they like

Tech use

I use the latest feature of javascript. ES6 + ES7, we compile with the help of babel and webpack v2.

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Part 1, Setup the tools

Video

Link

To add

• editorconfig
• express
• eslint
• babel
• webpack 2