A boilerplate bin website for saving text in a database and access it with a short URL. Very similar to PasteBin or JSBin. This is mostly back-end implementation of the website. Front-end is very simple.

Try a version of the app running here

Work in progress

Features

Automatically saves document changes in the database
Automatically makes a new version each time user saves a bin
Import from another page on the web with ?import query parameter. Example: http://anybin.herokuapp.com/?import=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mohsen1/anybin/master/README.md
Client side cache of recently made versions

Running locally

git clone git@github.com:mohsen1/anybin.git
cd anybin
npm install
npm run dev

Server command line options

config for selecting the configuration file
views for selecting the folder to look for index.ejs file
public for selecting public content folder
db MongoDB URL, it will override database URLs in config.js

Example

$ node app/server.js \
  --config='/path/to/my/config.js' \
  --views='/path/to/my/views-folder/' \
  --public='/path/to/my/public-folder' \
  --db='mongodb://user:pass@me.dbhost.com:9999/my-db'

Routes

Website

Operation	Path	Description
GET	/	Load homepage
GET	/?import=url	Load homepage and import from url
GET	/:id	Load a bin
GET	/:id/:version	Load a bin at a version

API

Operation	Path	Description
POST	/api/	Make a new Bin
POST	/api?import=url	Make a new Bin form url
GET	/api/:id	Get latest version of a bin
PUT	/api/:id	Update latest version of a bin
POST	/api/:id	Add a new version to a bin
GET	/api/:/id/:version	Get a specific version of a bin

License

MIT

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Last updated on 22 Sep 2014

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