ttesori / api-todaysholiday

This project is an API to serve up offbeat/funny holidays for a particular month or day. It also includes an administration area to manage the list of holidays.

Today's Holidays API

This project is an API to serve up offbeat/funny holidays for a particular month or day. It also includes an administration area to manage the list of holidays.

Link to project: https://todaysholidaysapi.com/

How It's Made:

Tech used: Node, Express, MongoDB, EJS, Javascript, Bootstrap, CSS

The application was originally designed as a simple CRUD API, but eventually wanted the ability to work with the API more easily and to require authorization for certain tasks (creating, editing, and deleting holidays). I integrated PassportJS with a local strategy for authentication and built out an administration dashboard to manage the list of holidays.

Lessons Learned:

This project taught me a whole host of lessons, including: how to implement authentication successfully, how to require authorization to access particular routes, how to organize a project with MVC architecture, and how to add new fields to an existing dataset.

One of the more challenging aspects of this project was aggregating the data from the various sources of weird holidays -- the data was in different formats, the dates weren't consistent and it took a good amount of time to get everything formatted for insertion into the database.

Optimizations

Future optimizations that I'd like to add to this:

• More robust alert/confirmation system when making changes on the administration dashboard.
• The ability to add multiple tags to a holiday through the administration dashboard.
• Documentation to the home page so others can use the API
• Add search to admin dashboard
• More robust responsive styling

api-todaysholiday's Issues

When you click a holiday, it re-saves even if the value is not changed

Mobile styling issues

• On login page, too much padding on top
• on manage page, logo should be smaller
• Nav should be stacked
• on mobile remove tags column
• Bottom holidays nav is broken