Fila is an application for working with file metadata. You can store your file metadata, retrieve, and delete specific file information via REST endpoints.

This project is built with the following tools:

• Express.js
• Typescript
• TypeORM
• Postgres

• Node.js

To setup a local copy of the project, clone the repository by running the command below in your terminal.

git clone https://github.com/codeBlock-1984/fila.git

1. To install the project packages, navigate to the project root and run the command below:

   npm install

2. Create a .env file in the project root directory. Copy the entire contents of .env.sample and paste into the .env file you created. Set the values of the .env file keys appropriately and save the file.

To start the local server run the command below:

npm run serve

You should see the message Fila server is listening on port <PORT>... in the console.

In this section <PORT> will refer to the value of the PORT key in your local .env

1. Create a file metadata: To create a file metadata record, send a POST request

curl -d '{"name":"test file", "size":1024, "format": "PDF"}' -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST http://localhost:<PORT>/api/v1/files/

2. Get all saved file metadata: To fetch all file metadata records, send a GET request

curl -X GET http://localhost:<PORT>/api/v1/files/

3. Get a specific file metadata: To fetch a file metadata record with <id>, send a GET request

curl -X GET http://localhost:<PORT>/api/v1/files/<id>

4. Delete a file metadata: To delete a file metadata record with <id>, send a GET request

curl -X DELETE http://localhost:<PORT>/api/v1/files/<id>

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE.txt for more information.