samikhalildev/clickview-backend-practical

ClickView Videos API

A backend api that allows to view, add, update and delete videos. It is able to fetch videos by specifying a folder name or tags. Uses nodejs and express as a backend service and mongo as the database.

Setup

• Make sure you have Node.js and Mongodb installed on your machine
• git clone this repo
• cd into the directory and npm install so that you have all the dependencies needed to run the program.
• run nodemon or npm start to start the server and the database http://localhost:3000

API

• GET - View all videos: /api/videos

• POST - Create or update a video: api/videos:

  • Data must be sent with the body of the request (use postman)
  • To update a specific video you must include the video name with updated fields in the body of the request

• DELETE - Delete a video: api/videos/video_id:

  • Include the video id in the url parameter.

• POST - Fetch videos by folder: /api/videos/folder

  • Folder name must be included in the body of the request e.g. folder: "Senior"

• POST - Fetch videos by tags: /api/videos/tag

  • Tags name must be included in the body of the request e.g. tags: "ABC"