This is the eighteenth challenge in the Northwestern Coding Bootcamp (Module 18). This is the backend-only functionality for a generic social network, which allows users to create an account, a thought, a friend's list, and a reaction to a thought, as well as update, view, and delete any of the above. This challenge is utilizing a noSQL database, and we are using MongoDB and Mongoose as our database and and ODM library, respectively, to perform each action in the CRUD method.
AS A social media startup
I WANT an API for my social network that uses a NoSQL database
SO THAT my website can handle large amounts of unstructured dataGIVEN a social network API
WHEN I enter the command to invoke the application
THEN my server is started and the Mongoose models are synced to the MongoDB database
WHEN I open API GET routes in Insomnia for users and thoughts
THEN the data for each of these routes is displayed in a formatted JSON
WHEN I test API POST, PUT, and DELETE routes in Insomnia
THEN I am able to successfully create, update, and delete users and thoughts in my database
WHEN I test API POST and DELETE routes in Insomnia
THEN I am able to successfully create and delete reactions to thoughts and add and remove friends to a user’s friend list