The objective of this project is to create a light version of the popular website stackoverflow

• Documentation
• System Requirements
• Technologies
• Installation
• Testing
• [ThoughtProcess](#thought process)

The API documentation is available here.

Your system will need to have the following software installed. For mongoDB, a connection string from mongoDB atlas should do:

• Node
• MongoDB

• nodeJS/express
• JWT(authentication)
• mongoDB
• pusher(notifications)
• redis
• mocha and chai

git clone https://github.com/danoseun/SOClone
cd SOClone

Add the connection string gotten from mongoDB atlas to the .env file in your project.

Include necessary variables as found in .env.sample into .env

npm i

npm run start:dev

npm test(All tests are passing).

• For registration/signup, users have to provide their firstname,lastname,email,username and password.

• Login(username and password) returns only the token.

• Currently, you have to upvote a question before downvoting.

• You can also search for questions by title and users by username.

• All search requests are case insensitive and like searches which means it returns results similar to what you entered in the query string irrespective of the case orientation.

• Only the GET /questions route is unprotected, all other routes are private.