An API for a social network that uses a NoSQL database so that the website can handle large amounts of unstructured data

• Usage
• Video-Description
• Schema-Description
• Instructions
• Built With
• Credits

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

This application demonstrates the database for a social networking application. API routes are tested through Insomnia. Following demo's show various functionalities of the application.

• This video shows the User and Friend Routes

• This video shows the Thoughts and Reaction Routes

• User

  • username:

    • String
    • Unique
    • Required
    • Trimmed

  • email:

    • String
    • Required
    • Unique
    • Must match a valid email address (look into Mongoose's matching validation)

  • thoughts:

    • Array of _id values referencing the Thought model

  • friends:

    • Array of _id values referencing the User model (self-reference)

• Thought

  • thoughtText:

    • String
    • Required
    • Must be between 1 and 280 characters

  • createdAt:

    • Date
    • Set default value to the current timestamp
    • Use a getter method to format the timestamp on query

  • username:

    • String
    • Required

  • reactions:

    • Array of nested documents created with the reactionSchema

• Reaction

  • reactionId:

    • Use Mongoose's ObjectId data type
    • Default value is set to a new ObjectId

  • reactionBody:

    • String
    • Required
    • 280 character maximum

  • username:

    • String
    • Required

  • createdAt:

    • Date
    • Set default value to the current timestamp
    • Use a getter method to format the timestamp on query

In the command line, run npm start to initiate server. NOTE: This repository consists of only the backend. The routes are located in the routes/api folder and can be tested with API test clients such as Insomnia Core or Postman.

• Express.js
• Mongoose
• MongoDB
• JavaScript

• Created by Amir Hackett