DevMastery Comments Microservice API

To manage comments on various Dev Mastery properties.

Features

• XSS Protection (via sanitize-html)
• Flags Spam (via Akismet)
• Flags rude or inappropriate language (English only via Content Moderator)
• Flags personally identifiable information (English only via Content Moderator)

Running Locally

Prerequisites

• Git
• Node JS
• Mongo DB
• Azure Content Moderator account (free)
• Akismet Developer account (free)

1. Clone the repo and install dependencies

git clone 
cd comments-api
npm i

2. Modify the .env file

Save sampledotenv as .env and then add your database and Content Moderator + Akismet API details.

3. Startup your MongoDB

Usually this is just: mongod on the command line.

4. Start the server

To run in production mode where code is transpiled by Babel into a dist folder and run directly in node:

npm start

To run in development mode where code is run by babel-node via nodemon and re-transpiled any time there is a change:

npm run dev