MitchPierias / Treehouse-FSJS-Project-09

Project 9 - REST API

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Project 9 - REST API

Usage

Install all required dependencies

npm install

Seed the database

npm run seed

Start the express server with

npm start

and navigate too localhost:5000

Project tasks

• Setup Mongoose
  • Add the Mongoose package
  • Configure to use the fsjstd-restapi database
  • Notify console upon errors
  • Notify console when database connects successfully

User Model

Define a Mongoose User data model

Key	Type
_id	ObjectId
firstName	String
lastName	String
emailAddress	String
password	String

Course Model

Define a Mongoose Course data model

Key	Type
_id	ObjectId
user	ObjectId
title	String
description	String
estimatedTime	String
materialsNeeded	String

User Routes

All of the following routes are available

Path	Method	Returns
/api/users	get	Current Authenticated User
/api/users	post	Creates user and redirect="/"

Course Routes

All of the following routes are available

Path	Method	Returns
/api/courses	get	List of courses and owning user
/api/courses/:id	get	Specified course and owning user
/api/courses	post	Create and redirect to course
/api/courses/:id	put	Updates course and returns nothing
/api/courses/:id	delete	Deleted course and returns nothing

Additional

• /api/courses and /api/courses/:id filters the following properties
  • emailAddress
  • password
• Return 403 if the user doesn't own the resource

Validations

POST and PUT routes validate the following

• User
• firstName
• lastName
• emailAddress
• password
• Course
• title
• description
• Valid and unique emailAddress Return a 400 error when vlaidation fails

Password Security

The POST /api/users route hashes the password before storing

Permissions

Authenticate permissions for the the following routes

• GET /api/users
• POST /api/courses
• PUT /api/courses/:id
• DELETE /api/courses/:id Return a 401 error when authentication fails