Social network for friends
Inspiration
A social media network API that utilises Mongo and Mongoose. Users can be created and they have the ability to add their thoughts. There is also the ability to add and delete friends, react to users thoughts as well as delete. This is a backend application that relies on either Insomnia or Postman to use.
Challenges
Working purely on backend is challenging - there are a lot of moving parts to the code. Making sure all the routes worked correctly and setting up the folder structure took a while to understand. Also, it takes some time manipulating the insomnia to work how you THINK it should work and figuring out why it doesn't do what you think it should.
Further Development
Adding a front end to this, based on user input as opposed to seed data. Allowing users to follow each other. It would be cool to see what this would look like as a full application with front and back end.
Technologies Used
Javascript Express Mongoose Mongo DB Insomnia
Created by Carla Brown: djmisscbrown@hotmail.com
Acceptance Criteria
GIVEN 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
Link to walkthrough video
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1qjWgofkSNLTOTFHJC2fil6CXlE1bdCK4?usp=sharing
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