A practice on MVC patterns built over Express JS, MongoDB, Mongoose and HBS stack.

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DiscoLect is platform for amateur music album reviewing. Users can easily start a blog and quickly do a review with pre-filled album details' sheets from Spotify API. After creating a review, albums are stored as references in DB on the review model; reviews can be browsed by using a search engine based on artists and their albums, thus search results allow visiting the reviews and the author's profiles.

npm install
# or
yarn add

This project is using Cloudinary as image storage, Spotify API as album search engine, and Mongo DB for local/remote data storing. Place your required secrets on:

/dev/discolect/.env

The reviews seeding file (seeds/reviews_seeds.json) is manually exported on MndoDB Compass. Create 2 or more initial users. Care about bindind to some of your local DB use by replacing author.$oid with the matching MongoDB _id

After placing your local MONGO URI, run on dev mode:

npm run dev
# or
yarn rev

• SIGNUP - A soft registering flow which adds defaults to user image and Blog Name.
• REVIEW - Search your favourite albums from an extense Spotify DataBase through it’s API and easily start a review.
• SEARCH AND BROWSE - Browse others posts by album/artist based search engine, and/or visit other any author (user) profile page.
• USE YOUR MOBILE DEVICE - Layout guarantees a mobile first experience

• REVIEW ROUTE SIMPLIFICATION
• SPLIT ROUTES FROM ALBUM AND ARTIST SEARCH ON REVIEW CREATION
• HOMEPAGE LATEST ENTRIES CAROUSEL
• PAGINATION ON REVIEW SEARCH RESULTS
• FOLLOW REVIEW AUTHORS (OTHER USERS)
• COMMENT ON REVIEWS
• USER PRESENCE INDICATOR
• MAILER: WELLCOME USER, GOODBYE USER
• TEXT EDITOR PACKAGE (FORMAT REVIEW CONTENT)
• PASSWORD CHANGE
• RELATED CONTENT LINKS ON REVIEW'S FOOTER

• GET /

  • renders the homepage wirth latest 3 review entries

• GET /auth/signup

  • redirects to / if user logged in
  • renders the signup form

• POST /auth/signup

  • redirects to / if user logged in

• GET /auth/login

  • redirects to / if user logged in
  • renders the login form

• POST /auth/login

  • redirects to / if user logged in

• POST /auth/logout

  • redirects /auth/login user logged in

• GET /review/search-artist

  • renders the artist list to choose album

• GET /review/:artistID/album-choose

  • renders the album to review list

• GET /review/:albumID/create

  • renders the review create form

• POST /review/:albumID/create

  • Creates a review document in our DB, redirects to it's view

• GET /review/search

  • renders the review search results, based on artist or album name

• GET /review/:albumID/:reviewId/edit

  • renders the review edit form

• POST /review/:albumID/:reviewId/edit

  • updates the review

• POST /review/:albumID/:reviewId/delete

  • destroy review

• GET /profile/:userID

  • renders the user profile

• GET /profile/:userID/edit

  • renders the user profile edition form

• POST /profile/:userID/edit

  • updates the user profile

• POST /profile/:userID/delete

  • destroy user profile

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