Small Talk Server

Description

A backend for an anonymous journal site.

Installation

• clone this repo
• npm install express
• npm install jest
• npm install cors
• npm run dev

Technologies

• npm to install the various packages
• express to run the server
• VS Code
• Heroku to deploy the server side
• Jest to test

Process

• Github projects used to list out targets and assign tasks
• created the server.js file to initialise
• added the routes in the app.js file
• created constructors for the posts and giphy api

Wins and Challenges

Wins

• comments update and are stored
• reactions update and are stored
• gifs are stored when the page updates

Challenges

• patching the server