/fcc-api-timestamp

Express backend to parse and return string formatted date objects. Part of freeCodeCamp's Back End Development and API certification projects.

Primary LanguageJavaScript

Timestamp Microservice

My solution!

I added an API in server.js to return a JSON object with unix and a formatted string date. The request returns an object for valid dates parsed by new Date(). Invalid dates return { error : "Invalid Date" }.

User Stories

  • You should provide your own project, not the example URL.

  • A request to /api/:date? with a valid date should return a JSON object with a unix key that is a Unix timestamp of the input date in milliseconds (as type Number)

  • A request to /api/:date? with a valid date should return a JSON object with a utc key that is a string of the input date in the format: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT

  • A request to /api/1451001600000 should return { unix: 1451001600000, utc: "Fri, 25 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMT" }

  • Your project can handle dates that can be successfully parsed by new Date(date_string)

  • If the input date string is invalid, the api returns an object having the structure { error : "Invalid Date" }

  • An empty date parameter should return the current time in a JSON object with a unix key

  • An empty date parameter should return the current time in a JSON object with a utc key