faisaly12 / blogue-server

An anonymous community journalling webpage. This repo contains the code for the backend, the API was built using the express library.

Blogue - server

A anonymous community journalling site built using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, inspired by the aesthetics of Vogue magazine. Users can make posts anonymously, with an optional feature to add a GIF. Other users can comment and react on the submitted posts.

Installation

• Clone or download this repo and blogue-client repo

Usage

• Open your terminal/CLI and navigate to the blogue-server folder
• Run npm install to install dependencies
• Run npm start to launch server
• Navigate to the blogue-client folder
• Run npm install to install dependencies
• Load index.html in your browser
• Happy posting!

Technologies

• Server side: JavaScript
  • Dependencies include: Express, Body-Parser, Cors
• Test suite: Jest, supertest

Process

• Discussion on what functionality we need on our server for the client
• Basic CRUD functionality implemented
• Improvements made upon existing functionality to give additional features to the client side

Wins & Challenges

Wins

• Achieved a minimum viable product. The following functionalities are available to the client: make GET requests to retrieve all posts, make post and patch requests to create posts, and react or comment on other peoples' posts
• Implemented full CRUD functionalities on server side (fully functional GET ,POST, PATCH, DELETE methods)
• Added additional feautures: A sort posts function which sends back posts in ascending, descending or by ascending order of comments + reactions;
• A search posts function which returns posts where the subject or journal input includes the search query string.
• Tested all functions and API Endpoints

Challenges

• Difficulties with testing on complicated functions
• Connecting server and client side
• Coming across numerous bugs and errors while setting up server

Bugs

• No known bugs. The following bugs were encountered during the process and fixed: delete method would delete posts even if postID given did not have a match in the data

Future Features

• Adding a functionality to allow the users to sort the submitted posts (e.g. in most recent or most reacted order)
• Granting superuser access to the admin so that they are able to delete or edit any posts (e.g. posts that may be inappropriate or hateful)
• Grouping the posts with tags pertaining to their subject matter, so that users to find posts relating to a specific subject matter.
• Search feature to allow users to find posts using specific keywords

Licence

• MIT