xargon666/journal_project_backend

Journal Project: Backend Development Repo

🖥 Journal Project Backend

Project made as a week-long group project by the students of the FutureProof Bootcamp (Auguste cohort) on LAP 1.

Description

This is the backend server and database (a simple json file) for the project located at this link. The server can accept different types of requests:

REQUEST TYPE	ENDPOINT	REQUEST BODY STRUCTURE	RESPONSE	USE
GET	/	empty	String	Send a Text String
GET	/posts	empty	All Posts and comments	First load
GET	/posts/:id	id of Post as queryString	Body of the requestedPost with its comments	When clicking on a post to view its content
POST	/posts	JSON with properties of 'bitle', 'body' and 'link' (for the giphy) all as Strings	All Posts and comments	When adding a new Post
DELETE	/posts	id of Post as JSON	All Posts and comments	When deleting a Post
POST	/posts/comments	JSON object with two properties: 'post' and 'comment'	The Post and its comments	When adding a Comment
POST	/posts/emojis	JSON Object with two properties: 'post' and 'emoji'	All Posts and comments	When clicking on an emoji icon
PATCH	/posts	JSON Object with two properties: 'post' and 'newData'	All the Posts and comments	When updating a previous Post

💾 Deployment

The application has been deployed on Heroku at this link.

🎮 Installation & usage

Locally:

npm install
npm start

Use with the front end client available at this link.

In the cloud:

1. Use the frontend app located at this link
2. Use a service like Hoppscotch

📟 Technologies

1. NodeJS : javascript runtime
2. ExpressJS : framework for nodejs that has been used to create the webserver
3. Jest: test runner
4. Supertest: to test HTTP Responses
5. UUID: to generate Universally Unique IDentifiers used for the id of both Posts and Comments
6. Hoppscotch: an online service used to manually test the routes
7. Zoom: to make the daily standups
8. Slack: to communicate with the team members

🤔 Process

Developed routes and testings separately with frequent catch up to help each other. Used:

• independent programming
• pair-programming
• (remote) mob-programming.

🪪 Licence

ISC

From Wikipedia:

• The ISC license is a permissive free software license published by the Internet Software Consortium, now called Internet Systems Consortium (ISC). It is functionally equivalent to the simplified BSD and MIT licenses, but without language deemed unnecessary following the Berne Convention

🏆 WINS

• The server is working
• Getting excellent Coverage for tests
• Handling multiple errors with quite a bit of validation
• Cooperation has worked great
• Backend and Frontend communicate flawlessly
• Few merge conflicts as we agreed on when to push and merge beforehand and also worked on separate branches

😫 Challenges

• Using Heroku as a team instead of a single developer
• Covering so many tests and cases
• Plan how to implement the features and how to send/receive data between frontend and backend

journal_project_backend's Issues

Remove posts with missing key data

Should we come up with some way to handle these? client-side could have something: if the post exists with no body then remove it. Or we could just make it impossible to create them.

How to save information into JSON permenant files

date function in Post object removes T in Tuesday

Update Backend Readme

Add initial Back End

Get Something Deployed for Backend

Server: Duplicate Posts

It is possible to create multiple copies of the same post. Each time the submit button is pressed, I believe an empty object is sent. The object seems to be persistent, and once a post is sent with the correct criteria, multiple copies are somehow created; the empty objects are all populated with the new post data.

Server: Fix issue with new post server.js

Reject posts with too many characters in the backend

Saving Comments to a JSON file linked to the post ID

Server: Date string issue

Date is skipping out T's, better implementation would be:
this.date.toString().slice(0, 24)