Quote API

This is a small Express.js web API to store and serve different quotes.

General Information

• This project is part of the Codecademy curriculum for the Full-Stack-Engineer career-path
• For the most part the front-end part was already provided. The aim of the project was to implement the routing logic using Express.js
• The project was built outside of the Codecademy environment to learn how to set up a server on your own node environment and test the functionality of the API while coding

Technologies Used

• Express 4.17.1

Features

• Displaying a quote by a certain author
• Displaying all quotes
• Displaying a random quote
• Adding quotes

Screenshots

Demo

Live demo here

Setup

The dependencies which are necessary to run this app can be found in the package.json file.

1. Clone the repo
2. Navigate to the project folder in the terminal and run

node server.js

to start the server 3. Visit localhost:4001 in the browser to interact with the front-end

Learnings

• Setting up a server and running it while working on the app to test
• Getting used to implement Express routing

Project Status

The project is finished including the optional tasks.

Acknowledgements

• This project is part of the Codecademy curriculum.