Buzz Word Bingo

About the game

Before a meeting the players are asked to enter words with point values. A player can enter a total of 5 words at most. Once a meeting starts if a word that the player previously entered is heard during a meeting that player can mark that word and score the points increasing their score. Each time the player scores a new word the total increases by the point value.

Welcome to Team Buzz™

Our game has been getting a lot of traction and we need to rebuild the API server with NodeJS to handle all the connections, we need you to create the server using ExpressJS. Our CTO will provide you with the specs below.

At this time:

you will not build the front-end.
you will not implement a database.

The Specs

We like RESTful architechure. We like CRUD. As always, data will be sent to the server as x-www-form-urlencoded.

Buzz word object

This is how your objects should look like after receiving a POST to the uri /buzzword

{
  buzzWord: String,
  score: Number
  heard: false
}

You will store these objects in memory for the time being. Meaning that if the server crashes and after restarting and listening again, your app will have no buzzword objects, no collection containing buzzword objects, no scores, nada.

Routes overview table:

METHOD ROUTE (uri)	BODY	RESPONSE	Action
`GET /`	empty	render HTML `index.html`	serves the `index.html`
`GET /buzzwords`	empty	`{ "buzzWords": [...] }` A JSON response containing an array of current buzz words	Retrieves all buzzwords
`POST /buzzword`	`{ "buzzWord": String, "points": Number }`	`{ "success": true }`	Creates a new buzzword object. Returns `true` if successful else `false`
`PUT /buzzword`	`{ "buzzWord": String, "heard": Bool }`	`{ "success": true, newScore: Number }`	Updates a buzzword. Returns `true` and the new score if successful otherwise returns just `false`
`DELETE /buzzword`	`{ "buzzWord": String }`	`{ "success": true }`	Delete a buzzword. Returns `true` if successful else `false`
`POST /reset`	`{ "reset": true }`	`{ "success": true }`	Resets the server. All buzzwords are removed and scores reset to `0`

Routes detailed

GET /: Serves the static file index.html which should be located in your public/ directory. For now just have a stub HTML file.

GET /buzzwords: Returns a JSON response containing single key, buzzWords which will be an array containing objects (see Buzz Word Object Section for details)

POST /buzzword: Creates a new buzz word object. The body should have these keys:

buzzWord which contains the buzz word as a String and
points property is how many points that word is worth when scored, this value is of data-type Number. Example: if { "buzzword": "Agile is amazing", "score": 1000 } is sent to this route then the server will create a new buzz word object and add it to a collection.

PUT /buzzword: Updates a buzz word's heard property. The body should contain these keys:

buzzWord which is the buzz word to modify.
heard Changes the value stored. Example: if { "buzzWord": "Social-Mobile", "heard": true } is sent to this route then the server will find the buzz word "Social-Mobile" and change it's heard property to true.

DELETE /buzzword: Deletes a buzz word from the collection.

Middleware to use

Body-Parser - Use this module to help parse the data coming from a request. Focus on the urlencodedoptions section of the README, use the extended: true option. Take some time to scan through the documentation. What is body-parser module doing for us? Is this module doing something we previously had to do manually?

Getting Started

Create your own directory for this project, name it express-todo-api.
You'll be using git and npm so be sure to initialize those tools before you use them.
Install the packages you need
Use Postman to test your routes.
Remember to commit often!

taylorak / express-todo-api