fullstackopen-part4-bloglist Testing Express servers, user administration

Answers to openfullstack.com course exercises from the University of Helsinki

Exercises

a. Structure of backend application, introduction to testing

• Exercises 4.1.-4.2. Solution details: 4.1 | 4.2

• Exercises 4.3.-4.7. Solution details: 4.3 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 4.7

The exercise 4.7 was done with lodash library and without additonal libraries

Tests can be execute as follow:

npm test

b. Testing the backend

• Exercises 4.8.-4.12. Solution details: 4.8 | 4.9 | 4.10 | 4.11 | 4.12

• Exercises 4.13.-4.14. Solution details: 4.13 | 4.14

c. User administration

d. Token authentication

• Exercises 4.15.-4.23. Solution details: 4.15 | 4.16 | 4.17 | 4.18 | 4.19 | 4.20 | 4.21 | 4.22 | 4.23

Pending

Does not appear in any exercise:

• It is only possible for authenticated users to update entries such as likes, url (existing) or title. (controllers/blogs.js > .put() action)
• Optionally save creation and update date of blog entries
• Return API queries such as the blog posts of a certain user, or the blog posts with the most likes.