Northcoders News API

Hosted App Link: https://the-wolves-den.onrender.com Project Summary:

This portfolio project was created as part of a Digital Skills Bootcamp in Software Engineering provided by Northcoders

It is designed to showcase my ability and knowledge of using testing frameworks, existing libraries, and be able to implement them into a function Web Service.

Instructions:

1. On the GitHub repository, click the green <> Code button, select the HTTPS tab, and copy the URL.

2. Within VSCode or a $bash Terminal, type the command "git clone <copied/url>".

3. This repository requires certain dependencies with the included minimum version; "dotenv": "^16.0.0", "express": "^4.21.1", "jest-sorted": "^1.0.15", "pg": "^8.7.3", "supertest": "^7.0.0"

For each dependency type the following into the terminal: npm i <dependency/name>

4. To connect to the database you will need to create two separate .env files with the required syntax;

• .env.test | PGDATABASE= nc_news_test
• .env.test | PGDATABASE= nc_news

5. The minimum required versions are;

• Node.js v22.9.0
• Postgres (pg) v8.7.3

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