sofiavazs / project-happy-thoughts-api

Happy Thoughts API 💌

This project's goal was to build an API which includes both GET request endpoints to return data and POST endpoints to create data. For the front end I revisited my previous project Happy Thoughts a twitter like app where you can see other people's happy thoughts, post your own and give a ❤️ to an existing one. You can see the live version here, feel free to leave me some happy thoughts! Happy Thoughts

Planning & What I learned 🧩

• This Express API consists of a MongoDB stored in Atlas and deployed to Heroku
• My first step in this project was to create the mongoose model for the Thought, the model schema consists of three main components: message, hearts and createdAt, with several validation rules embedded, i.e. required.
• Used try and catch in all endpoints for error handling.

Endpoints 💫

/

Root: Welcome page

GET /thoughts

Displays the latest 20 thoughts, sorted by createdAt to show the most recent thoughts first.

POST /thoughts

Endpoint to post and save a new thought to the database. It expects a JSON body with the thought message, like this: { "message": "Happy New Year!" }

POST /thoughts/:thoughtId/like

This endpoint doesn't require a JSON body. Given a valid thought id in the URL, the API should find that thought, and update its hearts property to add one heart.

Tech ⚡️

• MongoDB
• Mongoose
• Node.js
• Express

View it live 🔴

Happy Thoughts API 💌