halfbin

AnyBin

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 [e-mail]: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:[e-mail]: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