Not Pinterest | Backend

NotPinterest is a site built for friends. It's a place for you to share the things you most enjoy with an ultra exclusive crowd. If you found a recipe, or even a fun picture you liked then you can share it right here! Give it a description, title, and watch as it racks up likes!

Features:

• Users
• detailed posts
• Share images and URLs

Technologies used:

• Backend
  • Express
  • Mocha, chai, supertest (for testing)
  • NPM -Deployed on Heroku -MongoDB hosted on MongoAtlas -Frontend
  • React
  • API backend using fetch
  • Enzyme
  • NPM

Install instructions

• Clone this repo and the frontend
• cd into this repo
• 'npm install'
• start mongodb
• 'node db/seed.js'
• 'node index.js'
• The backend should be started! Now go to the directory with the frontend
• 'npm install'
• 'npm start'

Contributing!

First of all thank you for your interest in contributing! There are two separate repositories for use, this is just representing the backend repo. The frontend repo is located here! Additions must be made via pull requests. Fork, then clone this repository, add your changes, and submit a pull request. These will be reviewed and approved on a per-case basis as time permits.

Functionalities:

• Will have users
• Users can make posts
• Posts will be displayed on front page
• User can click on posts from front page to view further details

Bonus

• User signin
• User likes on other posts

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Backend

• Using Express
• Routes ‘/’ homepage
• /:post-id/comments
  • GET getContent
  • PUT edit
  • POST Create
  • DELETE delete
• ‘/:post-id’ post
  • GET getContent
  • PUT edit
  • POST create
  • DELETE delete
• ‘/:user-id’ user
  • GET getContent
  • PUT edit
  • POST create
  • DELETE delete

Models

Comment

• User
• Post

Users

• Name
• Likes
• Posts - array of refs to posts
• Description

Post model

• Url
• Title
• Info
• Ref to comments
• upvotes?

Comments model

• Body
• Post-id ref
• User-id ref

Database (db)

Connection.js
Seed.js
Models
Db:name = notPinterest_db