Project-3-Backend: A JavaScript repository from brandonhall96

Fake-X-Backend is the backend of a full space-x starlink tracker

Collaborators

https://github.com/jakeschultz89
https://github.com/brandonhall96
https://github.com/vinnyvilasboa
https://github.com/behemoth0132

Run mongoDB
Run your server
✨Magic ✨

Features

Use the seed .js file to add the static data we included in order to view it in mongoDB
The data used in the seed will reflect to the front end.
The magic is just getting started please scroll to the end to see the link for the front end!

Tech

Fake-X uses a number of technologies to work properly:

mongoDB - The database for modern applications
Mongoose - an Object Data Modeling (ODM) library for MongoDB and Node. js
node.js - evented I/O for the backend
Express - fast node.js network app framework

Installation

Fake-X requires Node.js to run.

You first need to clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/jakeschultz89/Project-3-Backend.git

Install the dependencies and devDependencies and start the server.

npm i
npm start

For .env... use whatever values you would like for the items included in the .env file below

MONGO_URI=""
JWT_SECRET=""

Next... Go to your terminal and

Run the command (mongod) first

Then follow up with the (mongo) command in a seperate terminal window

Code Snippets to be Proud of

The above code snippet is something we are very proud of due to the fact that we went through alot of trial and error to get this to work. The purpose of the above function is to update a specific astro that has already been created, initially we used the update method and that didnt work because it only updated the first astro in the database instead of the one we tried to pull and update by the i.d.. Once we changed it to findByIDAndUpdate it fixed all of our problems but we defninently had to troubleshoot this for a few days but thankfully with some needed help we got it to work.

Schema Idea

Above is our thinking behind our schema's and how they connect the User schema is self explanitory it collects the information input by the user and saves it to the database, this schema connects to the Astros Scehma meaning a user can create an astro and conduct other things such as update and delete them. The other schemas are stactic data that we seeded into our databse from the Space-X-API https://github.com/r-spacex/SpaceX-API/tree/master/docs/v4

Verify the deployment by navigating to your server address in your preferred browser.

http://localhost:8080

our backend is also deployed on heroku at https://afternoon-lowlands-89410.herokuapp.com/