vcolesdev / vcolesdev-fcc-timestamp-api

Microservice for retrieving timestamps in different formats. Built with NodeJS, TypeScript, and Express.

Vcolesdev - Timestamp Microservice

Overview

This example is the boilerplate code for the Timestamp Microservice project. Instructions for building your project can be found at https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/apis-and-microservices/apis-and-microservices-projects/timestamp-microservice

Features

• Express.js
• Node.js

Extra Credit

• nodemon
• TypeScript, tsc

To Do

• Add a frontend form for users to input a date string and get the response from the API.

Description

This project is a simple microservice that takes a date string as a parameter and returns a JSON object with a Unix timestamp and a UTC timestamp.

Requirements

1. A request to /api/:${date}? with a valid date should return a JSON object with a unix key that is a Unix timestamp of the input date in milliseconds (as type Number)

2. A request to /api/:${date}? with a valid date should return a JSON object with a utc key that is a string of the input date in the format: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT

3. A request to /api/1451001600000 should return { unix: 1451001600000, utc: "Fri, 25 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMT" }

4. Your project can handle dates that can be successfully parsed by new Date(date_string)

5. If the input date string is invalid, the API returns an object having the structure { error : "Invalid Date" }

6. An empty ${date} parameter should return the current time in a JSON object with a unix key

7. An empty ${date} parameter should return the current time in a JSON object with a utc key

License

MIT | [e-mail]