The Scoop

An article submission web app - I created all of the routing and database logic

Table of Contents

• General Info
  • Features
  • Implementation Details
  • Test
• Technologies Used
• Setup
• Acknowledgements
• Author

General Information

Features

The Scoop allows users to:

• Create and log in to custom username handles
• Submit, edit, and delete articles containing a link and description
• Upvote and downvote articles
• Create, edit, and delete comments on articles
• Upvote and downvote comments
• View all of a user's articles and comments

You can view all of this functionality in action in the video below: ▶

Implementation Details

To complete this project, I needed to add for Comments:

• the database information
  • ✔ issue 3
• and server routes
  • ✔ issue 4

Bonus: YAML Saving and Loading

• I used YAML for saving the database object to ensure it is able to be restored. Functions:
  • loadDatabase
  • saveDatabase
  • ✔ issue 6

Test

A testing suite has been provided.

• ✔ All test passed

  

Technologies Used

• React 15
• React router dom 4
• chai 4
• mocha 6
• yaml 2

Setup

To start the server, run

  $ npm install

and then

  $ node server.js

from the root directory of this project.

To view your local version of the site, open index.html in a web browser.

Acknowledgements

This project comes from the Codecademy's Create a Back-End with JavaScript course.

Author

• Simona Pizio