📝 Novels API

A backend API for the Novel Platform, providing novel metadata and chapter retrieval.

Repository: DragonBolta/novels-api

🚀 Features

• 🗂 Serve novel metadata: title, author, tags, description, rating, likes
• 📑 Retrieve chapters for novels
• ⚡ RESTful API endpoints for frontend consumption

🛠 Tech Stack

• 🖥 Backend: Node.js, Express
• 💾 Database: MongoDB
• 🐳 Deployment: Docker

🐳 Run with Docker (Recommended)

Pull and run the latest backend image:

# Pull the latest backend image
docker pull alvin1212/novels:api-latest

# Run the container
docker run -d -p 3000:3000 --name novels-api alvin1212/novels:api-latest

• 🌐 API is available at http://localhost:3000

Stop and remove the container:

docker stop novels-api
docker rm novels-api

💻 Local Development

To run the backend locally:

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/DragonBolta/novels-api.git
cd novels-api

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Configure environment variables in a .env file (MongoDB URI, etc.)
npm start

🌐 Frontend

The API is consumed by the Novels Frontend: DragonBolta/novels-frontend