ASAPP Chat Backend Challenge v1

Overview

This is a TypeScript based boilerplate which runs an HTTP Server configured to answer the endpoints defined in the received challenge. All endpoints are configured in src/controllers folder and if you go deeper to the controllers, you will see the specific implementation of each one.

Prerequisites

• Clone the repository

  git clone https://github.com/Batta32/asapp-challenge.git

• Install Docker
• Install NodeJS
• Install Postman

To try this sample

The sample uses the port 8080 by default.

Using Docker

1. Open a terminal
2. Pull Docker image for ASAPP challenge

   docker pull batta32/asapp-challenge

3. Run the downloaded container in port 8080

   docker run -p 8080:8080 -it batta32/asapp-challenge

4. Hit the supported endpoints specified here using Postman

Locally

1. Open a terminal
2. Go to the location of the cloned project
3. Install the dependencies of the sample

   npm install

4. Start the sample

   npm run start

5. Hit the supported endpoints specified here using Postman

Supported endpoints

• POST /health: check the health of the system
• POST /users: create a user in the system
• POST /login: log in as an existing user
• POST /messages: send a message from one user to another
• GET /messages: fetch all existing messages to a given recipient, within a range of message IDs

Further Reading

• Docker
• NodeJS
• Postman