desiks / acme_mentorship

Checkpoint - Pillars (Express/Sequelize)

This checkpoint is primarily to help us understand how well you've absorbed the material covered so far. It covers the main backend libraries you've leaned in the curriculum so far: Express and Sequelize.

To this end — and perhaps it goes without saying — we ask that you don't help each other or cheat.

Resources

FSA Checkpoint Academic Integrity Policy

Things we're checking

• Express App Structures
• Express Routing and Route Methods
• Sequelize Model Configuration
• Sequelize Hooks

Starting

1. Fork this repo to your own GitHub

• Clone your fork to your local machine.
• Make sure your Postgres database is running!
• Create two databases:
  • Development Database: createdb acme_mentorship_db
  • Test Database: createdb acme_mentorship_db_test
• npm install
• You can run npm run test-dev which will run the test suite continuously (npm test runs the tests only once).
• In a separate terminal, you can run npm run start-dev-seed which will start a development server on port 3000. It will also re-seed the database with fresh data whenever you save a file. (If you'd rather not re-seed on every change, you can run npm run start-dev instead.)
• Start working through the tests in test/. You have to mark them as active (from pending) by changing xit to it
• Read through the project structure. You'll be working exclusively in server/db/User.js and server/routes/users.js.
• Before the lunch break, do a git commit -am "LUNCHTIME" && git push origin master

IMPORTANT TIPS FOR SUCCESS

• READ ALL COMMENTS CAREFULLY. Specs often assume you have read the comments.
• After you have correctly defined the User model's name and userType fields, you can probably run all the remaining model and route specs in any order (note, not 100% guaranteed). So if you get stuck, move on and try some other specs.
• You should git commit and git push very frequently — even for each passing spec if you like! This will prevent you from losing work.
• That this project includes some working front-end code in client/index.js, bundled with Webpack into public/bundle.js. You won't need to write any front-end code to pass the provided tests, but you are encouraged to read through that front-end code to understand how it uses axios to make requests of the back-end.
• If you are uncertain what a spec is doing or asking of you, or you've gotten stuck, ask for help. We may not be able to give you any hints, but you won't know if you don't ask, and sometimes the problem is technical rather than related to the checkpoint itself.
• Please don't submit console.logs and other debug code.

Submitting

To submit your answers:

git commit -am "submission for deadline" && git push