README.md

Watchify

📝 Table of Contents

• About
• Getting Started
• Technologies used

🧐 About

Welcome to Watchify – a robust backend solution providing essential features for video uploading and storage built with nodejs, expressjs, mongodb, mongoose, jwt, bcrypt, etc. This RESTful API is designed to handle:

• User Authentication: Secure account creation, login, and identity verification.
• Video Management: Seamless video uploading and storage.
• User Interaction: Liking, disliking videos, commenting, tweeting and more.

🏁 Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

Make sure you have the following installed on your machine:

• NodeJs : JavaScript runtime for server-side development.

Installing

Follow these steps to set up the development environment:

1. Clone the Repository:

git clone <https://github.com/desmond3th/backend.git>
cd backend

2. Install Dependencies:

npm install

3. Set Up Environment Variables:

create a .env file in the root directory and add the necessary variables.

PORT=3000
MONGODB_URL=your-mongodb-connection-string
CORS_ORIGIN=*
ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=your-secret-key
ACCESS_TOKEN_EXPIRY=your-access-token-expiry-time
REFRESH_TOKEN_SECRET=your-refresh-token-secret
REFRESH_TOKEN_EXPIRY=your-refresh-token-expiry-time
CLOUDINARY_CLOUD_NAME=your-cloudinary-name
CLOUDINARY_API_KEY=your-cloudinary-api-key
CLOUDINARY_API_SECRET=your-cloudinary-api-secret

4. Run the Development Server:

npm run dev

⛏️ Technologies used

• MongoDB - Database
• Express - Server Framework
• NodeJs - Server Environment
• Cloudinary - Cloud

✍️ Author

• @desmond3th