Forum Server

Forum Server is a back-end API created with Django that utilized PostgreSQL to store and retrieve data about Posts, Comments, and Likes for the "Let's Talk" forum client application.

Links

• Deployed Client Application: https://areeshz.github.io/forum-client/
• Deployed Forum API: https://forum-server-capstone.herokuapp.com/
• Front-End Repository: https://github.com/areeshz/forum-client

Technologies Used

• Python
• Django
• Django REST Framework
• PostgreSQL

Entity Relationship Diagram

API End Points

Verb	URI Pattern	Controller#Action
POST	/sign-up/	users#signup
POST	/sign-in/	users#signin
DELETE	/sign-out	users#signout
PATCH	/change-password/	users#changepw
GET	/posts	posts#index
POST	/posts/	posts#create
GET	/posts/:id	posts#show
PATCH	/posts/:id	posts#update
DELETE	/posts/:id	posts#destroy
POST	/comments/	comments#create
PATCH	/comments/:id	comments#update
DELETE	/comments/:id	comments#destroy
GET	/likes	likes#index
POST	/likes/	likes#create
DELETE	/likes/	likes#destroy
GET	/likes/:id	likes#show

Planning and Execution

Development of this server came in several iterations, each adding another feature for the Let's Talk forum client application to utilize. After development of the ERD, models and views were created for the 'Post' resource. Next, models and views were created for the 'Comment' resource. Last was the 'Like' resource, which created a many-to-many relationship between users and posts.

Next Steps

Future iterations of this server would attempt to enable additional features present in mainstream forum websites, such as allowing a user to make a comment on a comment (create threads).

Setup Steps

1. Fork and clone this repository.
2. Run pipenv shell to enter the virtual environment
3. Create a database named forum_server_dev in PostgreSQL by running psql to enter the shell, and then CREATE DATABASE forum_server_dev
4. In your terminal, run python manage.py makemigrations and python manage.py migrate to ensure your database is up to date
5. Run python manage.py runserver to spin up your local server