Node proof-of-concept for CodeBuddies V3

Background: codebuddies/codebuddies#1136

Crowdsourced brainstorm of problems we want to solve: https://pad.riseup.net/p/BecKdThFsevRmmG_tqFa-keep

Proof-of-concept Goals

• Resource CRUD

TODO:

• User profiles
  • How easy is it to set up an editable user profile?
• Calendar/hangouts
  • How easy would it be to make a calendar widget that lets users block out times they're free for hangouts?

Getting Started

Clone the project, run npm install and npm start to load up the server. If having database errors with postgres, see this guide on getting it set up: https://www.robinwieruch.de/postgres-sql-macos-setup https://www.robinwieruch.de/postgres-sql-windows-setup

Copy .env.example as .env in the root directory. Not necessary to change the values at this time. Leave DATABASE_PASSWORD blank.

How to use

Once the server is up, the application is available by visiting localhost:3000 in the browser. Using RESTful paths, going to /resources will list all current resources, /resources/:resourceId will show a single resource based on ID.

Alternatively, you can use cURL to interface with application.

# returns an collection of Resource objects
curl localhost:3000/resources

# POST request to create a new Resource with a JSON payload
curl -d '{ "title": "Some title!", "description": "Great description!" }' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' localhost:3000/resources

# DELETE request to delete a resource with the resource ID of 3
curl -X DELETE localhost:3000/resources/3

Findings

TBD

Technologies Used

Node, Express, Postgres, Sequelize (ORM to handle models and Postgres).