Summary

Your company's front end team has completed a business dashboard requested by management. You need to build the data server that will provide the front end client with the data it needs to show.

Setup

• Fork, Clone, npm install
• You will need a database setup either locally or in the cloud
• remember to start your server
• Use postman to test your server, don't rely on the web page which is just for show.

Create a server

• npm install express and body-parser
• server/index.js
• connect to your database
• serve static files from the public folder

Routes

• create get routes.
• look at data.csv. read this file and pull the information out of it
  • /dateTime - return the current time
  • /newComments
  • /newTasks
  • /newOrders
  • /tickets

Database

• add 3 collections: messages, tasks, orders

MVC

• create Routes, Models and Controllers
• Look at server/state.js
• create mongoose models that follow the example data
• create get routes, use the Models to get data from the database
  • /tasks
  • /orders
  • /messages
• create post routes, use the Models to insert data into the database
  • /tasks
  • /orders
  • /messages

node-fetch

• The ceo likes to look at pictures of foxes while reading business reports
• install node-fetch
• make a route for /foxes
• make a http get call to https://randomfox.ca/floof/
• send back the image value

Run Server

• Use postman to test that it is working
• If everything is coded properly, the client webpage should show the data from the server
• Use the network tab to inspect what http messages are being sent