Codehub — Backend

The backend API for Codehub, a freelance portfolio platform with courses, articles, comments, and messaging.

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Overview

Codehub Backend powers Codehub, a freelance portfolio website. It manages the site's content (services, technologies, works, vision, courses, and articles) and its community features (users, comments, and messages), with local and social authentication.

Features

• Authentication: sign-up, sign-in, and forgot and reset password by email, plus social login with Google, GitHub, and Facebook.
• Portfolio content: services, technologies, works (projects), and vision statements.
• Learning content: courses and articles, with filtering.
• Community: comments and contact messages.
• User management: filtering, counts, and role-based guards.
• File uploads served as static files.

Tech Stack

Area	Technology
Framework	NestJS
Language	TypeScript
Database	PostgreSQL, TypeORM
Authentication	Passport (JWT, Google, GitHub, Facebook), bcrypt
Email	Nodemailer
Uploads	Multer, @nestjs/serve-static

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Node.js and npm
• A PostgreSQL database

Installation

git clone https://github.com/RithyBondeth/Codehub-Backend.git
cd Codehub-Backend
npm install
npm run start:dev

The API is served under /api.

Environment Variables

Variable	Purpose
DATABASE_URL, DATABASE_PORT, SYNCHRONIZE	PostgreSQL connection
JWT_SECRET, JWT_EXPIRE_IN	Token signing
EMAIL_USER, EMAIL_PASSWORD	Password-reset email
GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID, GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET, GOOGLE_CALLBACK_URL	Google login
GITHUB_CLIENT_ID, GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET, GITHUB_CALLBACK_URL	GitHub login
FACEBOOK_CLIENT_ID, FACEBOOK_CLIENT_SECRET, FACEBOOK_CALLBACK_URL	Facebook login
PORT	Server port

Project Structure

Codehub-Backend/
└── src/
    ├── auth/                  # Local and social auth, guards, strategies
    ├── user/
    ├── service/  technology/  work/  vision/
    ├── course/  article/  comment/  message/
    ├── uploadfile/            # File uploads
    ├── entities/              # TypeORM entities
    └── config/                # Database and JWT configuration

Related Repositories

• Codehub-Frontend: the React portfolio website

Author

Rithy Bondeth — Full Stack Developer & AI Engineer

License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for details.