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Primary LanguageJavaScript

Create with Express

Build the router and the createOne controller for the Books and Pets database.

Setup

  1. Fork this repository
  2. Clone the forked repository onto your local machines
  3. In the root directory, type npm install, which installs dependencies for the project

You have some additional setup steps for this one:

  1. In ElephantSQL, create a new instance

Figure 1: A new ElephantSQL database instance

  1. Copy the URL of your new instance

  2. Create the file .env in the root directory. It should contain a single line, which contains the environment variable used to specify the url from the instance created above; e.g (where the stars below will contain your password):

PGURL = "postgres://zzlrlrtu:****@tyke.db.elephantsql.com/zzlrlrtu"

Finally:

  1. Type npm start, which starts a development server that will reload whenever you make any changes to source files.

All being well, you will have a terminal window that looks like the following:

Figure 2: The terminal window where the express server is running successfully

Instructions

  • Build the router for the Books resource
  • Build the router for the Pets resource
  • Build the createOne controller for the Books resource
  • Build the createOne controller for the Pets resource

Tips

  • Take a look inside the model to see what data types with which you are working with.
  • Use ElephantSQL to check if your requests are succesfully creating rows in the database (there will be mockData stored in there already).

Extra Challenge 1

  • Add validation in your controller that sends a useful message back to the client when there's an error, with suggestions as to what they could do differently.

Extra Challenge 2

  • Have a look inside utils/mockData.js and see if you can generate some mock data and build your own resource and model ie. a bank account resource or a vehicle tax resource. Take a look at faker.js for inspiration.