Here, we will build 3 small projects in one to keep learning express.
- Fork this repo
git clone
the forked repositorycd
to the directory where you cloned itnpm install
to install dependencies that are already included in thepackage.json
npm test
to run the testsnpm install express dotenv
to install new dependencies express and dotenvtouch app.js server.js .env
- go into
package.json
and putserver.js
as the value for the keymain
.env
PORT=8888
Note: Remember to
git add
,git commit
andgit push
regularly
- When finished, commit and push your work.
- Make a pull request on GitHub.
Let's start with a simple activity. Make a route that takes 3 parameters in the URL
- verb
- adjective
- noun
so that if the url is
http://localhost:8888/jumping/joyous/jellybean
The response will be
Congratulations on starting a new project called jumping-joyous-jellybean!
99 little bugs in the code
99 little bugs
Pull one down
Patch it around
101 bugs in the code
- On the home page (
get "/bugs"
), users should see:- "99 little bugs in the code"
- a link that says "pull one down, patch it around"
- this should link to
/bugs/101
, where the number represents the number of bugs remaining to fix
- When a number is given in the url (
get "/bugs/:numberOfBugs"
), users should see:- The number of bugs left in the code (i.e.
101 little bugs in the code
) - a link to "pull one down, patch it around", where the href is number of bottles in the parameter plus 2
- The number of bugs left in the code (i.e.
- If there over 200 bugs left, do not show a link to "pull one down", rather, add a link to start over, which directs the user back to the home page
- You should use an
anchor
tag with anhref
to link to the next 'page'
In The Darkest Timeline: The Pokeapi has gone from free to $1 per API call!
You decide to take it upon yourself to create a new Pokemon API for all to share for free.
You have happened upon a strange pokemon.json
file. Rumor has it that a mysterious person who goes by PyritePikachu scraped this data off the internet. It doesn't have anywhere near as much info as Pokeapi and it seems a bit outdated, but that's ok! It's a start!
Confirm you are able to bring in the data from the pokemon.json
file
app.js
const pokemon = require("./pokemon.json");
console.log(pokemon[0]);
node app.js
- to confirm you see an object with Bulbasaur's info.
-
make a route
/pokemon
that will show a list of all the pokemon -
make a route
/pokemon/:indexOfArray
that returns 1 pokemon at that array position- if the array position is invalid or there is no pokemon at that position, instead send
sorry, no pokemon found at /pokemon[indexOfArray]
- where[indexOfArray]
is the value from the URL that the user has entered
- if the array position is invalid or there is no pokemon at that position, instead send
-
make a route /pokemon/search - where a user can add a query parameter such as http://localhost:8888/pokemon/search?name=oddish
which will respond with
{ name: 'Oddish', img: 'http://img.pokemondb.net/artwork/oddish.jpg', type: [ 'Grass', 'Poison' ], stats: { hp: '45', attack: '50', defense: '55', spattack: '75', spdefense: '65', speed: '30' }, damages: { normal: '1', fire: '2', water: '0.5', electric: '0.5', grass: '0.25', ice: '2', fight: '0.5', poison: '1', ground: '1', flying: '2', psychic: '2', bug: '1', rock: '1', ghost: '1', dragon: '1', dark: '1', steel: '1' }, misc: { classification: 'weed pokemon', height: '1’08”', weight: '11.9', happiness: '70' } }
- Instead of just sending JSON, create new routes at
/pokemon-pretty/
send some HTML - for all the pokemon, send an unordered list of anchor tags that link to the array position of the pokemon
- in each individual view
/pokemon-pretty/:indexOfArray
of a pokemon, instead of JSON, display the name, image and any other info
HRRMMM, adding all this HTML as a string inside the routes is getting unweildly... is there a better way?
-
Add search ability for other keys in the pokemon data.
-
Use
<style></style>
and put some CSS in there to style the page -
Use create-react-app and figure out how to connect it to this backend (we'll teach you later on in the course how to do this)