Shopify Challenge S19

Personal Shopify Summer 2019 Developer Intern Challenge solution.

A RESTful NodeJS + PostgreSQL API. Attempting to go start to finish in a single evening, 5PM - 10PM.

Documentation: https://ryanfleck.github.io/Shopify-Challenge-S19/

Heroku Container: https://rcf-shopify-s19.herokuapp.com

Technology Used:

• NodeJS https://nodejs.org/en/
• Express https://expressjs.com/
• PostgreSQL https://www.postgresql.org/

Follow-Up: Considerations for future development:

• Principled GraphQL https://principledgraphql.com/

Development Notes

• To develop: npm run develop
• To run: npm run start
• Use .env file to store postgres connection string as DATABASE_URL.
• Use psql DB UNAME to login and \dt to show relations.

Nice, db is full of sample data from https://mockaroo.com/:

Fantastic - Heroku logs can be streamed heroku logs -a rcf-shopify-s19 --tail

Resources

1. GraphQL JS Docs https://graphql.org/code/#javascript
2. Postman Docs https://learning.getpostman.com/docs

Time Tracking

1. 2018-01-13 - 3h - Decided to apply to Shopify and start the challenge.
2. 2018-01-14 - 3h - Last day to work before deadline! Removed GraphQL bits. Deployed to Heroku. No unit testing yet.