/antisocial-network-api

An api for a hypothetical social network built with MongoDB and Mongoose.

Primary LanguageJavaScript

Antisocial Network API

Hippocratic License HL3-FULL

An api for a hypothetical social network built with MongoDB and Mongoose.

Table of Contents

Installation

You'll need Node.js, npm, and MongoDB to be installed before you begin. Clone this repo. From your command line, go to the repo directory and run npm install.

With that out of the way, you can run npm start to start the server.

Usage

You can hit the endpoints to perform CRUD actions for users, thoughts, and reactions.

Users

Endpoint: /api/users

  • GET all users
  • POST a new user:
{
   "username": "kramer",
   "email": "kramer@example.com"
}

Endpoint: /api/users/userID

  • GET a single user
  • DELETE a single user AND all associated thoughts
  • PUT update a user with a new username or email:
{
   "email": "cosmo.kramer@example.com"
}

Endpoint: /api/users/userID/friends/friendID

  • POST add a new friend to a user's friend list
  • DELETE remove a friend from a user's friend list

Thoughts & Reactions

Endpoint: /api/thoughts

GET get all thoughts

POST create a new thought:

{
	"username": "newman",
	"thoughtText": "Hello, Jerry."
}

Endpoint: /api/thoughts/thoughtID

  • GET a single thought
  • PUT update a thought's thoughtText:
{
	"thoughtText": "Hello, ~Jerry~"
}
  • DELETE remove a thought

Endpoint: /api/thoughts/thoughtID/reactions

  • POST creates a reaction to a thought and stores it in the parent thought's reactions array
  • DELETE removes a reaction by its reactionId:
{
	"reactionId": "62fec182d2e24bc9bbd6ab5d"
}

Demo video

antisocial-network-api-demo.mp4

License

This project uses the Hippocratic License, v3.0. TL;DR, it's not quite open source, but as long as you're not violating human rights, being a fossil fuel company, conducting military operations, etc (see license for full details), you can essentially treat it as open source.

Questions?

Contact lshillman via methods described at lukehillman.net.