SWAPI

A SWAPI appplication that provides API endpoints for listing names of Star Wars movies along with their opening crawls and comment counts, adding and listing anonymous comments for a movie, and getting the character list for a movie.

Getting Started

To get a copy of this project up and running on your local machine for testing and development, you would need to have a minimum of the listed prerequisites installed on your local machine.

Prerequisites

Node.js (v8.12.0 or higher) and npm (6.4.1 or higher) installed on your local machine. Run node -v and npm -v in your terminal to confirm that you have them installed
GIT and Bash

Node

Node installation on Windows

Go to official Node.js website and download the installer. Also, be sure to have git available in your PATH, npm might might be dependent on it (You can find git here).

Node installation on Ubuntu

You can install nodejs and npm easily with apt install, by running the following command.
```
$ sudo apt install nodejs
$ sudo apt install npm
```

If the installation was successful, you should be able to run the following command.

$ node --version
v10.16.0

$ npm --version
6.9.0

To update your npm, run the following command.

$ npm install npm -g

Project Install

$ git clone https://github.com/femigabs/swapi.git
$ cd swapi
$ npm install

Configure app

Create a .env file and add the environment variables described in the .env.example file.

Running the project

$ npm run dev (development)
$ npm start (production)

Running migrations

$ npm run migrate:up
$ npm run migrate:down

Running tests

$ npm run test

Technologies

Node JS
Express
Postgres
Supertest and mocha
Postman

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