GamesFeed Server

Server side for the GamesFeed project.

Environment Variables

To run this project, you will need to add the following environment variables to your .env file

PORT CLIENT_URL NEWS_API_URL NEWS_API_KEY DB_HOST DB_LOCAL_DBNAME DB_LOCAL_USER DB_LOCAL_PASSWORD JWT_SECRET

Run Locally

Install dependencies

  npm install

Start the server

  npm run dev

Tech Stack

Node, Express, Knex, MySQL

API Reference

Get all news articles

  GET /news

Get all friend recommended news articles

  GET /news/recommend

Get all news articles if unregistered

  GET /news/unregistered

Post a new signup

  POST /user/signup

Post a new login

  POST /user/login

Get user data

  GET /user

Delete a user

  DELETE /user

Get user preferences

  GET /user/prefs

Post user preferences

  POST /user/prefs

Get all preferences

  GET /user/allprefs

Get user friends

  GET /user/friends

Post user friends

  POST /user/friends

Get user recommendations

  GET /user/prefs

Post user recommendations

  POST /user/prefs

Lessons Learned

It's imperative to locate data sources which produce useful data relevant for your project and ideas.

Roadmap

• Add integrations with various newsapi's

Authors

• @tonywucs