tkimana / houston-codeo-messenger

Houston Codeo Chat

Setup

Allowed Resources

1. Your brain!
2. No more than one page (front and back) of hand written notes
3. The Debugger. Please run and debug your code
4. The general internet

Banned Resources

1. Other students
2. Any prepared materials (besides notes)
3. Any lessons
4. Any solution code from any lab, whether you wrote it or Flatiron School did
5. Code from any lecture

Cloning

• Clone this repo down (don't fork!)
• Create and checkout a branch before you start coding: git checkout -b "your-name"

Deliverables

This code challenge can be broken down into 7 steps. It is recommended that you commit after each step:

1. Get messages by requesting it from the server
2. Create a Message class, and use it to render each of the messages in a list
3. Listen for when a user tries to add a new message
4. When a user makes a message, Render the new message in the message list without refreshing the page
5. When a user makes a message, Send the message to the server so that it persists
6. Use setInterval to re-request the messages every 500 ms and re-render them in the list
7. Refactor your code to make it as clean as possible

Getting the messages

The endpoint for getting image looks like this:

GET 'http://10.185.1.104:3000/messages'

Example Response:
[
  {
    "id": 1,
    "content": "Hello Houston Codeo!"
  }
]

If you cannot get your fetch request to work correctly, you can use the example response above to append content to the DOM and attempt the subsequent steps

Sending the messages

POST 'http://10.185.1.104:3000/messages'

Required keys in the body of the request:
{
  content: (insert message content here)
}

Required Headers
{
  'Accept': 'application/json',
  'Content-Type': 'application/json'
}

Submission

git add .

git commit -m "complete"

git push