Project 02

Dockerized Message Board Web Application

A full-stack forum application — boards, posts, and comments — built collaboratively and shipped as a fully containerized Node.js + PostgreSQL stack.

Completed Full-Stack · Team Project

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Overview

Working as part of a small collaborative team, I helped build a discussion-forum web application end to end — from the relational data model up through authenticated, session-protected routes. The app lets users create boards, start posts within them, and comment on threads, backed by a PostgreSQL schema and served through an Express.js API.

The whole stack ships as a single docker-compose definition, so the Node.js service and its PostgreSQL database spin up together with one command — no manual environment setup on a new machine.

My Role

Built Express.js backend routes for authentication, board/post creation, and protected page access.
Modeled and queried a relational PostgreSQL schema for users, boards, posts, and comments.
Implemented secure login with bcrypt password hashing and session-based authentication.
Containerized the full stack with Docker Compose (Node.js + PostgreSQL services).

Tech Stack

Node.js Express.js PostgreSQL Docker & Docker Compose bcrypt Session Auth