Joke Generator App

status: not deployed

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Simple joke making application created with Node.js & Express.js. It will demonstrate the use of calling to a back-end server to fetch an API data, receive it back to the front-end browser, & display to the DOM.

Collaborators

Michael F. Alvarez | Herman Liu | Adnan Niaz

Requirements

Node / NPM / Express

Setup / Install

1. clone repo

HTTPS
    $ git clone https://github.com/awwmicky/joke-generator-app.git
SSH
    $ git clone git@github.com:awwmicky/joke-generator-app.git
GitHub cli
    $ gh repo clone awwmicky/joke-generator-app

2. update, then run

    $ npm install
    ...(wait)...
    $ npm run dev

Key Features

• call API route to server > API route calls 3rd party API > send back data to client > display to DOM

To Do:

• user clicks the button once, it pops up a joke
• user clicks the button again, it pops up the punchline

Tech Tools Used

• Workflow: Github / GH Projects / Pull Requests / Git
• Front-End: HTML / CSS / JS / Axios / Materialize
• Back-End: Node / Express / Axios / API
• Deploy: Heroku

Third Party API Resources

• https://official-joke-api.appspot.com/jokes/programming/random

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