Craigslist Clone w/ API
Create a Craigslist clone from front to back.
Learning Objectives
- Plan a full scale project
- Translate high level feature requests into code
- Image upload and display
- Front end layout
Features
- Login/Registration/My Account
- City selection page
- Ability to store a city preference on user profile
- Category and subcategory features
- Main page index (listing categories and sub categories)
- Implement a Search feature
- Posting a new classified
- Posting list for any given subcategory. Must include 3 different data views:
- List
- thumb
- gallery
- Posting detail page. Should include:
- Images
- Navigation
- Sorting:
- Newest
- High Price
- Low Price
REST API features
Learning Objectives
Adapt an existing large project to include API endpoints that mimic existing functionality and constraints
Base URL: https://cl-dhcrain.herokuapp.com/api/
- Retrieve a list and detail of existing Categories
/categories//categories/:id/
- Retrieve a list and detail of existing Sub-Categories
/sub_categories//sub_categories/:id/
- Retrieve a list and detail of existing Posts by Sub-category & by Category
/category_listings/:id//sub_category_listings/:id/
- Allow a user to create new categories and sub-categories through the API - but ONLY if they have is_superuser flag on their account.
- Retrieve a detail of a single post.
/listings/:id/
- Create a new Listing with all Foreign Key fields satisfied
/listings/
- Update an existing post. Include being able to change the Sub-Category the post belongs to.
- Allow a user to create an account through the API and return the user their API Access Token
/register//api-token-auth/
- A non logged in user can NEVER create or update ANY records.
- A logged in user can NEVER update a record created by another user.
- Use Basic or Token authentication to allow a user to authenticate.