This was a Week 20 project @Technigo Frontend Bootcamp made by Julia Nikitina and Elsa Carlström. The assignment was to create a fullstack project connecting a backend API and a React frontend.

On a backend we needed to create three endpoints: a registration endpoint (to create a new user), a sign-in endpoint, to authenticate a returning user and an authenticated endpoint which only shows the content if the Authorization header with the user's token was correct.

On a frontend we implemented a sign up and a sign-in form, a page to show the authenticated content from the NASA API and a 'sign out' button that removes the saved access token and redirects the user to the login form.

We have not faced any big issues, but we are proud that we managed to reach some stretch goals like improved validation for email address on a backend and displaying error messages on a frontend where it occurred (username duplicate or missing email). If we had more time we would implement a POST endpoint to add a comment on today's NASA image :)

Backend technologies:

• Mongoose to create a User's schema and a model based on the schema
• Bcrypt method for salt to safely hash and store passwords
• Async/await was used for promises
• Regex to validate that the e-mail address provided by the user follows the correct format
• Deployed to MongoDB through Heroku

Frontend technologies:

• React/React Routes
• Redux (store, reducers)
• Styled components implementation for styling
• localStorage to enable user to stay logged in when reloading the page
• Lottie library for animations
• API fetch
• React Font Awesome icons

Frontend: https://space-a-day.netlify.app/; Backend: https://julia-elsa-fullstack.herokuapp.com/