The back end section of a news website where users can browse a series of articles and narrow the selection down by topic. Users can add comments to articles, and delete their own, plus they have the ability to vote up or down on articles or comments.
A full version is hosted here: Northcoders News
You will need Node.js, git and MongoDB.
Clone the repository then use npm i to install the dependencies. Start MongoDB and set up a local config file. Seed a local database with npm run seed. npm start will start the application. npm test will run the test file.
Mocha, Chai and supertest will be required to run the spec file.
The following routes are available on the API:
GET /api/articles
Returns all the articles in the database. Certain routes will redirect here.
GET /api/topics
Get all the topics. This route is used by a component, but the user is redirected back to /api/articles.
GET /api/topics/:topic_id/articles
Return all the articles for a chosen topic
GET /api/:article_id
Get an individual article
GET /api/articles/:article_id/comments
Get all the comments for a individual article. This route is used by a component; users will see the comments under the article as standard.
POST /api/articles/:article_id/comments
Adds a new comment to an article.
PUT /api/articles/:article_id
Using a query of 'up' or 'down', this route will increase or decrease the votes of an article by one.
PUT /api/comments/:comment_id
Using a query of 'up' or 'down', this route will increase or decrease the votes of a comment by one.
DELETE /api/comments/:comment_id
A user can delete their own comments. This feature is not available on other users' comments.
GET /api/users/:username
Returns the profile data for the specified user.