kach92 / heroku-node-example

[heroku][node][js]

Pokedex Express App (with models and users)

For this exercise, we will abstract SQL queries into model files to declutter our controller files - effectively moving completely into an MVC (model view controller) framework.

We will also be introducing a Users table so users can create accounts on the app.

Getting Started

1. Fork and clone this repository to your computer
2. Run yarn install to install dependencies
3. Create a new Postgres database by running createdb pokemons -U <your_username>
4. Run psql -U <your_username> -d pokemons -a -f tables.sql - this will create 2 new tables for you - a pokemons table and users table in the database
5. Seed data into the newly created pokemons table by running psql -U <your_username> -d pokemons -a -f seed.sql (Note: this will run 3 INSERT queries to seed 3 pokemons into the table.)
6. Look in the starter file called index.js, run nodemon to start local server on port 3000
7. Open localhost:3000 on your browser and see the home page

Deliverables

• Add in missing logic implementation in controllers/pokemon.js for updateForm and update
• Add in missing logic implementation in controllers/user.js for login
• Add a "Logout" button on home page that sends POST request to /users/logout to log out a user (hint: remember to remove cookies)
• Ensure that you can create a new user account
• Ensure that you can create a new pokemon

Further

Add the ability for users to own newly created pokemons.

• Drop the database from earlier and implement a slightly different entity relationship - modify tables.sql to create a third table called user_pokemons that has a primary key id, and 2 foreign keys pokemon_id and user_id
• Modify the pokemon/new.handlebars file to accept a new field called "user_id"
• Modify the backend logic to assign any newly created pokemon to the specified user based on the value of the new user_id field
• Update the user/user.handlebars file to show all pokemons that a specified user owns (eg. /users/1 should show the 1st user's account information and names of pokemons that she owns)

Notes

• Singular vs plural naming is important. For this exercise, let's assume that the plural of pokemon is pokemons...
• We have changed our table names to be plural. So user is now users table, and pokemon is now pokemons table.