API Project: Timestamp Microservice for freeCodeCamp

User Stories:

1. The API endpoint is GET [project_url]/api/timestamp/:date_string?
2. A date string is valid if can be successfully parsed by new Date(date_string). Note that the unix timestamp needs to be an integer (not a string) specifying milliseconds. In our test we will use date strings compliant with ISO-8601 (e.g. "2016-11-20") because this will ensure an UTC timestamp.
3. If the date string is empty it should be equivalent to trigger new Date(), i.e. the service uses the current timestamp.
4. If the date string is valid the api returns a JSON having the structure {"unix": <date.getTime()>, "utc" : <date.toUTCString()> } e.g. {"unix": 1479663089000 ,"utc": "Sun, 20 Nov 2016 17:31:29 GMT"}
5. If the date string is invalid the api returns a JSON having the structure {"unix": null, "utc" : "Invalid Date" }. It is what you get from the date manipulation functions used above.

Example Usage

• https://fobabs-timestamp-microservice-1.glitch.me/api/timestamp/2017-09-12
• https://fobabs-timestamp-microservice-1.glitch.me/api/timestamp/1505174400000

Example Output

• {"unix":1505174400000,"utc":"Tue, 12 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMT"}

To run this project locally:

1. You'll need to clone this repository

$ git clone https://github.com/fobabs/timestamp-microservice.git
$ cd timestamp-microservice

2. Make sure you have node 12.*.* installed. We used ES6 modules which only support version 12 and later.
3. If you have the devDependency located in package.json installed globally, you can skip this step, otherwise install it using

$ npm install --only-dev

4. Start up the server

$ npm start

NOTE: The server is available at http://localhost:3002 OR http://127.0.0.1:3002.