MILESTONE_2.md

Milestone 2

Introduction

Like we often do in product development, we will start by building an MVP (Minimum Viable Product). During this milestone, you will build a simple RESTful API to manage events using, for now, an in-memory data structure (e.g. array) to store the data.

Get ready

• Express.js routing: Learn how you can use routing to process different requests through your API. http://expressjs.com/en/starter/basic-routing.html

• Express Route Paths: During the development of your API, you will use route paths to define handlers for different requests. http://expressjs.com/en/guide/routing.html

• RESTful APIs: Learn what makes an API a RESTful API and why REST is so important http://www.andrewhavens.com/posts/20/beginners-guide-to-creating-a-rest-api/

• Express.js route parameters: Learn how to manage parameters in a route to collect data from a request http://expressjs.com/en/4x/api.html#req

Requirements

1. Define a Javascript object that represents an "Event".

   • It should contain an id, title, a description, and a date.

2. Create a Javascript object that will be used to store all your events.

   • Use it as a dictionary where they id of the event will be the key used to store each event.
   • Add multiple event objects to your data structure.

3. There should be an endpoint to get a list of all the events (GET /events)

4. There should be an endpoint to get one event and all its fields by its id (GET /events/{id})

   • It should return a 404 error code if the event can’t be found

5. There should be an endpoint that allows to create a new event (POST /events)

   • It should add the event to the events object
   • It should receive as a parameter an object with a title, description and date
   • It should automatically generate a new ID
   • It should return the event generated
   • It should use body-parser and accept json

6. There should be an endpoint that allows to update an existing event (PATCH /events/{id})

   • It should validate that an existing event ID is passed as parameter
   • It should return the modified event

7. There should be an endpoint that allows to delete an existing event (DELETE /events/{id})

   • It should return an empty response

8. Test your API using Postman

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