Installation

1. Do a git clone of the following repository: https://github.com/MaristGormanly/nscalera-lab4

2. Please navigate to the correct folder in your terminal (cd path/to/folder), and enter npm install.

3. Then, run psql -U postgres -f server/db/create-db.sql

4. When prompted, please use the password you setup while installing postgres.

5. Lastly, please enter the credentials for the gamersguild database, with both the username and password being "gamersguild"

Go to Website

1. To start up the website, please enter npm run dev

2. Then, please enter the following base URL into your browser: http://localhost:1337/

Find Cookie

To find the cookie, please navigate to login.js and CTRL + Find the following line:

document.cookie = "userID=" + userID + "; expires="
    + now.toUTCString() + ";";

This sets a cookie as well as an expiration time, which should be 10 minutes. We are putting the userID in the cookie, and then if you go to feed.js, you'll see that we retrieve it from the following line:

var value = ";" + document.cookie;

API Documentation

Below is an example of API documentation of the program. We have six different methods (two for GET), which can be performed in Postman.

USERS

This includes different user profiles feeds.

URL                     METHOD              BODY TYPE               REQUEST BODY IF POSSIBLE

/api/user               GET ALL             application/json
/api/user/:index        GET SINGULAR        application/json        
/api/user               POST                application/json        {"firstName":"Nathan", "lastName":"Drake"}
/api/user/:index        PUT                 application/json        {"firstName":"Nathan", "lastName":"Drake"}
/api/user/:index        PATCH               application/json        {"firstName":"Sam"}
/api/user/:index        DELETE              application/json

FEEDS

This includes different feed posts.

URL                                      METHOD              BODY TYPE               REQUEST BODY IF POSSIBLE

/api/backendfeed                         GET ALL             application/json
/api/backendfeed:index                   GET SINGULAR        application/json
/api/backendfeed/user/:index/feed        GET USER FEEDS      application/json 
/api/backendfeed                         POST                application/json        {"description":"Hello, World!", "userID":"3"}
/api/backendfeed/:index                  PUT                 application/json        {"description":"Hello, World!", "like":"3", "comment":"Hello to you!"}
/api/backendfeed/:index                  PATCH               application/json        {"comment":"Hope all is well."}
/api/backendfeed/:index                  DELETE              application/json

Dependencies

"body-parser": "^1.20.2",
"express": "^4.18.3",