freecodecampApiChallenges

This repository contains the implementation of the api challenges for freecodecamp.

The challenges are the following

• Timestamp Microservice
• Request Header Parser Microservice
• URL Shortener Microservice
• Image Search Abstraction Layer
• File Metadata Microservice
• Exercise Tracker

Methodology used

Instead of creating a single repo for each challenge and as i'm familiar with github i condensed the api challenges in one package/repo. As it's not in direct contradiction of the rules and/or objective. In terms of development methodology i used the following:

• /src/
  • this folder contains all the view implementation and also the routing logic used.
• /src/components
  • Inside this folder are the components i.e views used for the challenges
• /src/Challenges -Inside this folder is the logic applied to every challenge
• /dist/
  • This folder contains the release(aka build files).
• /uploads/
  • This folder contains the placeholder for the File Metadata challenge upload info
• /lib/
  • This folder will contain the server and it's dependencies minified.

Tech

this set of challenges uses a number of open source projects to work properly:

• React - Great Javascript library for Building user interfaces
• node.js - evented I/O for the backend
• Express - fast node.js network app framework
• Webpack - fast packaging framework for deployment
• Mongodb - Best of relational with the innovations of NOSQL
• Axios - Simple Promise based http request package

And of course the implementation of the challenges themselves are open source with a git-repo-url on GitHub.

Installation from source

freecodecamp api requires Node.js v5+ to run.

Download and extract the latest pre-built release.

Install the dependencies and devDependencies and start the server.

$ cd folder to contain the app
$ npm install 
$ npm start

Open url http://localhost:5000

License

MIT

Free Software, Hell Yeah!