dropbox-clone

This is a basic Dropbox clone to sync files across multiple remote folders.

Time spent: ~20 hrs

Getting Started

• Install NodeJS if not already installed. See http://nodejs.org/
• Install babel: npm install -g babel
• Install nodemon: npm install -g nodemon
• Clone the repo: git@github.com:niki4810/dropbox-clone.git
• run npm install

Starting your server

From the root directory of your project you can run one of the three commands to start the server

• using start script: npm start
• using nodemon & babel-node: nodemon --exec babel-node -- --stage 1 --optional strict -- index.js
• or if you have bodemon alias setup: bodemon index.js

Starting your client

From the root directory of your project run

• using nodemon & babel-node: nodemon --exec babel-node -- --stage 1 --optional strict -- client.js
• or if you have bodemon alias setup: bodemon client.js

Features

• Start the server using the above mentioned steps, and form a different terminal

Client can make GET requests to get file or directory contents

• To get list of files and directories, run

	curl -v http://127.0.0.1:8000/ -X GET

• To read the index.js file, run

	curl -v http://127.0.0.1:8000/index.js -X GET

Client can make HEAD request to get just the GET headers

• To get the HEAD response, run

	curl -v http://127.0.0.1:8000/ --head

Client can make PUT requests to create new directories and files with content

• To create a directory and a file with in it, run

	curl -v http://127.0.0.1:8000/foo/bar.js -X PUT -d "HelloWrold"

• To create just a directory, run

	curl -v http://127.0.0.1:8000/foo/baz/ -X PUT

Client can make POST requests to update the contents of a file

• To re-write contents of an existing file, run

	curl -v http://127.0.0.1:8000/foo/bar.js -X POST -d "Some changed content"

Client can make DELETE requests to delete files and folders

• To delete a file within a folder, run

	curl -v http://127.0.0.1:8000/foo/bar.js -X DELETE

• To delete a folder itself, run

	curl -v http://127.0.0.1:8000/foo/ -X DELETE

Server will serve from --dir or cwd as root

• Instead of serving files from cwd you can pass in a --dir argument when starting server to GET, PUT, POST, and DELETE from the specified --dir path.
• To start your server using --dir path run

	nodemon --exec babel-node -- --stage 1 --optional strict -- index.js --dir

• PUT a file in the --dir path : curl -v http://127.0.0.1:8000/foo/bar.js -X PUT -d "HelloWrold"

• GET a file in the --dir path : curl -v http://127.0.0.1:8000/foo/bar.js -X GET

• POST to a file in the --dir path: curl -v http://127.0.0.1:8000/foo/bar.js -X POST -d "asdfasdfa123"

• DELETE a file in the --dir path: curl -v http://127.0.0.1:8000/foo/bar.js -X DELETE

Client will sync from server over TCP to cwd or CLI dir argument (mainly PUT, POST, and DELETE requests)

• Start the server using one of the steps mentioned above

• Start the client using one of the steps mentioned above

• All client files are synced to the client-files directory under root of this project if a --dir argument is not passed when starting the server.

• PUT a file to the server : curl -v http://127.0.0.1:8000/foo/bar.js -X PUT -d "HelloWrold"

• POST to a file on the server: curl -v http://127.0.0.1:8000/foo/bar.js -X POST -d "asdfasdfa123"

• DELETE a file from the server: curl -v http://127.0.0.1:8000/foo/bar.js -X DELETE

• You can also specify a --dir path to sync files to that folder when starting both client and server, see below