Social-Network-API

Following the user story below, I created a social network Api that uses the latest technology of MongoDB database.

User Story

AS A social media startup
I WANT an API for my social network that uses a NoSQL database
SO THAT my website can handle large amounts of unstructured data

Acceptance Criteria

GIVEN a social network API
WHEN I enter the command to invoke the application
THEN my server is started and the Mongoose models are synced to the MongoDB database
WHEN I open API GET routes in Insomnia for users and thoughts
THEN the data for each of these routes is displayed in a formatted JSON
WHEN I test API POST, PUT, and DELETE routes in Insomnia
THEN I am able to successfully create, update, and delete users and thoughts in my database
WHEN I test API POST and DELETE routes in Insomnia
THEN I am able to successfully create and delete reactions to thoughts and add and remove friends to a user’s friend list

The App has the following routes and can be used to get any user or thought information needed.

API Routes

/api/users

• GET all users

• GET a single user by its _id and populated thought and friend data

• POST a new user:

// example data
{
  "username": "lernantino",
  "email": "lernantino@gmail.com"
}

• PUT to update a user by its _id

• DELETE to remove user by its _id

BONUS: Remove a user's associated thoughts when deleted.

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/api/users/:userId/friends/:friendId

• POST to add a new friend to a user's friend list

• DELETE to remove a friend from a user's friend list

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/api/thoughts

• GET to get all thoughts

• GET to get a single thought by its _id

• POST to create a new thought (don't forget to push the created thought's _id to the associated user's thoughts array field)

// example data
{
  "thoughtText": "Here's a cool thought...",
  "username": "lernantino",
  "userId": "5edff358a0fcb779aa7b118b"
}

• PUT to update a thought by its _id

• DELETE to remove a thought by its _id

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/api/thoughts/:thoughtId/reactions

• POST to create a reaction stored in a single thought's reactions array field

• DELETE to pull and remove a reaction by the reaction's reactionId value.

Watch the video below for a short Demo