Northcoders News

This project

I built the backend service for a social media news service similar to reddit, where a user can post articles relating to a topic. Other users can comment and leave votes too. This backend is built using Node.js, Express.js and PostgresSQL. Test Driven Development managed by using Jest and Supertest.

Instructions

1. Fork and clone this repo https://github.com/AudeNgD/nc-news

2. In your local repo, install the dependencies by running npm i

3. Create a .env.test and .env.development files in the root folder of your local repo. In the .env.test file, add PGDATABASE=nc_news_test In the .env.development file, add PGDATABASE=nc_news NB - The db names should match the names listed in the /db/setup.sql file

4. Check that the .env files are .gitignored

5. Seed the local databases by running run setup-dbs and run seed. The latter will seed the db with the development data.

6. Run the tests by running npm test app to check that all is in order.

Minimum version requirements

• PostgreSQL > 14.11
• Node.js > 21.3.0

Link to the hosted version

https://nc-news-uld9.onrender.com/