The Bouqs Challenge Online Database 🌸

Sources

• Instructions and initial repo cloned from json-server-heroku
• Addional instructions for me to make this work: json-faker-server
• The mock api files using Faker.js came from The Bouqs front end challenge repository

Setup instructions

1. Clone this repo: git clone git@github.com:hunter547/bouqs-challenge-backend.git
2. cd into the project: cd bouqs-challenge-backend
3. Run the generate script: npm run generate
4. Add your files: git add .
5. Commit your files: git commit -m "yay I have a database."
6. Create an account on Heroku.
7. Install the Heroku CLI on your computer.
8. Then, log into Heroku from the CLI: heroku login
9. Within the bouqs-challenge-backend project folder, create a Heroku project: heroku create my-cool-app
10. Then push your commited changes form step 5 to Heroku: git push heroku master
11. Open your app once it's finished building: heroku open

Function of npm run generate

This script runs the db.js file to generate data using faker.js and outputs the JSON result to a file called db.json. Then when Heroku runs npm start on server.js, server.js uses that file as its source to handle requests and serve data.