michael-schlueter / boss-machine

An API which provides information to a fictional management tool.

Boss Machine

An API which provides information to a (fictional) management application

General Information

• The project is part of the Web Development course from Codecademy
• The front-end was already provided. The aim was to implement the routing logic
• The project is based on a fictional company and its management tool for managing employees, tasks, ideas and meetings

Technologies Used

• Axios 0.16.2
• Body-parser 1.17.2
• Cors 2.8.4
• Express.js 4.15.14
• Morgan 1.8.2

Features

• Managing employees ('Minions') by delegating tasks to them
• Managing business ideas (adding, editing, removing, delegating)
• Managing meetings (adding, editing, removing, delegating)

Screenshots

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 install the necessary NPM dependencies

npm install

3. Run the app typing

npm run start

in your terminal. 4. Open index.html in your browser.

Learnings

• Setting up the routing using express.js
• Using Express Router for structuring the routing
• Using helper functions to work with the database

Project Status

The project (including bonus tasks) is finished.

Acknowledgements

• This project is part of the Codecademy course for Web Development.