PetFlix - Backend

Frontend Repo

Deployed API

Backend Tech Used

• React
• Redux
• Mongoose
• VS Code
• Javascript​
• Notion & Github - for team project management
• Whimsicle - for wireframes & ODM planning

General Approach

Our general approach was to combine our passions and interests as a team to a fun, social media-based app that revolves around our treasured pets. This would allow users to upload pictures of their pets (among other CRUD functionalities) to share with other users.

Additionally, there would be an opportunity for users to add profiles for their own pets to provide more details should other users want to know more about a pet's name, species, breed, and so forth.

The main idea is to implement both a social and personal element to the app. Beyond user and pet profiles, users would have the ability to generate journal entries for their pet's day-to-day and log in milestones for those big pet moments.

Installation Instructions

To install the backend, please do the following:

npm i

npm start

Models

Click here for the object-document mapping.

RESTful Routes

Name	Action (CRUD)	Description	Notes
/	GET	Main page with description of the app - landing page	MVP
/auth/signin	GET	Log-in form	MVP
/auth/signin	POST	Post sign-in form to db	MVP
/auth/signup	GET	Sign up form	MVP
/auth/signup	POST	Post sign-up form to db	MVP
/about	GET	show about me page of the developers + add'l info about the app	MVP
/home	GET	renders timeline with all of users' posts	MVP
/home/:post_id/comment	POST	form to create a comment	MVP
/home/:post_id	GET	renders comment on a specific post	MVP
/home/:postId	DELETE	deletes a specific post; configured so only users can delete	MVP
/home/:postId	PUT	updates a specific post; configured so only users can update	MVP
/profile	GET	user profile with seperate component for pets	MVP
/profile/post	POST	form page to create a post	MVP
/profile/:postId	GET	specific page for a single post	MVP
/profile/:petId	GET	render the pets from user - points to their specific profile page that will then render journal entries and milestones unique to that pet	MVP
/profile/pet	POST	form to add a pet to user profile	MVP
/profile/:petId	PUT	updates a pet in user profile	MVP
/profile/:petId	DELETE	deletes a pet in user profile	MVP (☹️)
/profile/:petId/journal	POST	creates a journal entry for a user's pet	Stretch
/profile/:petId/:journalId	PUT	updates a journal entry for a user's pet	Stretch
/profile/:petId/:journalId	DELETE	deletes a journal entry for a user's pet
/profile/:petId/milestone	POST	creates a milestone event for a user's pet	Stretch
/profile/:petId/:milestoneId	PUT	updates a milestone event for a user's pet	Stretch
/profile/:petId/:milestoneId	DELETE	deletes a milestone event for a user's pet	Stretch

Major Hurdles & Unsolved Problems

At first, we had challenges with the slight learning curve of overall github management.

Once we tackled that and got more skilled and familiar, the biggest hurdles were ensuring our routes and controllers were in good form as we did numerous testing and finetuning.