Rent My Stuff API

Project Description

This is the server-side of our app, rent_my_stuff_api. The technology used on the server-side are, as follows,

Project members

The members who did this project are Robert Servado and Roberto Cervantes Betancourt

Project Conception

We did our Project Planning using Miro, RentMyStuff

Setup Instruction

Install dependencies with,

npm install

Dependencies

  "bcrypt": "^5.1.0",
  "body-parser": "^1.20.1",
  "cookie-parser": "^1.4.6",
  "cors": "^2.8.5",
  "dotenv": "^16.0.3",
  "express": "^4.18.2",
  "express-session": "^1.17.3",
  "morgan": "^1.10.0",
  "nodemon": "^2.0.20",
  "pg": "^8.8.0"

Create the Database

To load all of the information within the db directory and go to the root directory of 'rent_my_stuff_api',

and then connect to your ,

psql <PG USER>

Create a database within psql

CREATE DATABASE rentmystuff;

Copy the .env.example file to .env and fill in the necessary PostgreSQL configuration. The node-postgres library uses the environment variables by default.

PORT=3005

PGUSER=labber
PGPASSWORD=labber
PGHOST=localhost
PGDATABASE=rentmystuff
PGPORT=5432

Setup Database (Create Table and Seeding Information)

To load all of the information within the db directory go to the root directory of 'rent_my_stuff_api',

and then connect to your ,

psql <PG USER>

and then connect to the rentmystuff DATABASE,

\c rentmystuff

within psql run the following codes to create the table setup and seeding information,

\i db/schema/create.sql

and,

\i db/seeds/seeding.sql

You should have all the needed information for the database

Run the Server

Running the server normally,

npm start

Future Plans for the project

List of goals and milestones will be displayed here soon

ArjayS/rent_my_stuff_api