18 NoSQL: Social Network API

Table of contents

• Overview
  • The Challenge
  • Screenshot
  • Links
• My Approach
  • Code construction
  • Learnings
• Author

Overview

The Challenge

GIVEN a social network API WHEN I enter the command to invoke the application THEN my server is started and the Mongoose models are synced to the MongoDB database WHEN I open API GET routes in Insomnia for users and thoughts THEN the data for each of these routes is displayed in a formatted JSON WHEN I test API POST, PUT, and DELETE routes in Insomnia THEN I am able to successfully create, update, and delete users and thoughts in my database WHEN I test API POST and DELETE routes in Insomnia THEN I am able to successfully create and delete reactions to thoughts and add and remove friends to a user’s friend list

Screenshot

Links

Github URL: https://github.com/amalahema/social_network_API

Code Construction

• mongoose, Schema and model
• express & node.js
• Router & controller

Learnings

• How do connect the server with mongodb
• How to create a database in the schema and design the table
• How to add a reference to the table and join the data of the multiple tables
• How to display data for the particular URL
• How to get, post, and delete the data in the table
• How to import the router to index.js
• How to use async and await
• How to use try and catch method

Walkthrough Video:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/13CSoqO6cio0PWk9BRHRjxjG6LAN7dw_d/view