MMedium's Mini-Medium

We are building a simple blog posting web application that allows users to log into their account and input new blogs posts that can be viewed in a newsfeed of most recents posts.

Installation Instructions

Clone this repository
Run npm install
Create a config.env file
Add a DATABASE_URL variable with a link to a local PSQL database on your computer.
Add a COOKIE_PASSWORD variable of at least 32 random characters (this is used to encrypt cookies from the server).

User Stories

As a user, I want to be able to:

Post new blog posts
Log into my account with a password
Attach my author name to the posts I write, and view the authors of others
Browse a feed of the most recent posts
Attach an image to my posts

Goals

Be able to submit new blog posts
Create a newsfeed of blog posts, showing image, title, date and time posted, and author
Order newsfeed by most recent
Click on each item on newsfeed to open the post in a new page
Include login page
Include home page button that directs to newsfeed
BEM

Stretch Goals

Wireframe

We mapped out the following wireframes for our site, that included three different pages:

Home

Submit new post

View Post

Architecture

Schema Diagrams

We used the following schema for the database:

user

Column	Type	Modifiers
id	integer	not null default
username	character varying(100)	not null
password	character varying(100)	not null
avatar_url	character varying(100)	not null

article

Column	Type	Modifiers
id	integer	not null default
user_id	integer	not null
title	character varying(100)	not null
body_text	character varying(2000)	not null
image_url	character varying(100)	not null

Learnings

We made our wireframes using this website: moqup.com
Setting up a test database:

Open Postgres elephant app
run psql in the terminal
create a test database: CREATE DATABASE testDatabaseName
run \c testDatabaseName
run \i ./database_build/db_build.sql or the path to your sql filter
Create a config-test.env and add the test DATABASE_URL to this file (don't forget to add this file to .gitignore)
set environmental variable to test, under scripts in package.json add the following: "pretest": "ENV=testing node database_build/db_build.js", "test": "tape tests/tests.js | tap-spec",
Add the following to db_connect.js:

const environment = require('env2');

if (process.env.ENV === 'testing') {
  environment('config-test.env');
} else {
  environment('config.env');
}

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