Image Upload API

A RESTful API to run CRUD operations on images using multer and cloudinary.

In a nutshell, what happens is, your image gets uploaded to the cloudinary server, and then mapped to a public_id for easy access.

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Environments

• Node version - v14.17.0

Technologies:

• NodeJS
• ExpressJS
• Multer
• Cloudinary

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To run the app manually

note: run all commands in the application's root directory

Install all dependencies

npm install

Database Setup

- get a mongodb uri
- create a .env file [Recommended: Just rename the .env.example file I created in the root directory.]
- set the connection uri as MONGODB_URI in the .env file (i.e MONGODB_URI=<connection uri>)

API Configuration

Create a cloudinary account;

- You will get a <cloud_name>, <api_key>, and <api_secret>
- In the .env file created above, populate the corresponding field for your cloud name, api key, and api secret

Start Application

npm run server

API Endpoints

GET: api/v1/user/
Sample request to get the list of users [including their names and avatars]

POST: api/v1/user/
Sample request to create a new user [name + avatar]

DELETE: api/v1/user/:id
Sample request to delete a specific user from the database.

PUT: api/v1/user/:id
Sample request to update/replace a specific user.

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Author:

• Giwa Jossy

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