The assignment was to create a backend including a REST-API using Mongoose and MongoDB. The API is then used in my previous Happy Thought frontend-project.

To solve the problem I used:

• MongoDB as data storage
• Mongoose to define the document structure in the database
• Mongo Cloud Atlas for database hosting
• Heroku for backend server hosting
• MongoDB Compass for testing
• Postman for testing

Endpoints:

• GET /thoughts
  • gets the 20 most recent thoughts, sorted in descending order (new thought on top)
• POST /thoughts
  • posts a new thought. Requirements are min 4 characters and max 140 in one message, and the value must be unique.
• POST /thoughts/:id/like
  • increases the amount of likes/hearts by 1 on the thought with the provided _id.
• DELETE /thoughts/:id
  • deletes the thought with the provided _id.

If I had more time I would experiment with more features that would require changes in the frontend to really understand how FE and BE is connected.

Backend deployed on Heroku: https://happy-thoughts-finder.herokuapp.com/

Frontend deployed on Netlify: https://epic-euler-f992c6.netlify.app/