gpledran / vdm-test

Test project about VDM and API

VDM back-end test

This is an application built with Node, Express and PostgreSQL.

Quick Start

1. Clone the repo
2. Install dependencies: $ npm install
3. Start your Postgres server and create a database called vdm_db
4. Create the database tables: $ node lib/database
5. Start the server: $ npm start

Get VDM posts

1. Install PhantomJS. $ npm install -g phantomjs or $ brew install phantomjs
2. We will first need to run server: $ npm start
3. Get the last 200 posts, run in another terminal $ phantomjs lib/getLastVDM.js

API Usage

• Get the last 200 VDMs via api/posts
• Or search by:
  • Author ?author=Anonyme
  • Date from ?from=YYYY-MM-DD
  • Date to ?to=YYYY-MM-DD
• Get one VDM by id via api/posts/:id

Unit testing

1. Create a new database called vdm_db_test
2. Create the database tables: $ node lib/database --test
3. We will first need to run server: $ npm start -- --test
4. Run in another terminal $ npm test

Custom PostgreSQL config

Edit the file config.js and set your own connection informations

Regrets

• Don't get and store IDs VDM posts : relaunch getLastVDM script add same posts.
• POST last 200 VDMs on API instead of saving in database directly from getLastVDM script, because of PhantomJS uses.