Social Networking API

This project has three parts

Introduction

Problem

Solution

Introduction

MongoDB is a popular choice for many social networks due to its speed with large amounts of data and flexibility with unstructured data.

This project is to build an API for a social network web application where users can share their thoughts, react to friends’ thoughts, and create a friend list. For this Express.js for routing, a MongoDB database, and the Mongoose ODM are used.

Problem

Inorder to run the localhost application in insomia was abit challenging . To understand the correct route for users and thoughts and challenging

Solution

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

Mock Up

The following animations show examples of the application's API routes being tested in Insomnia