This project is my solution to the 2st assignment at edX Introduction to Node.js course.

https://courses.edx.org/courses/course-v1:Microsoft+DEV283x+2T2018/course/

It is a RESTful Express API server with the following endpoints:

• GET and POST /posts
• PUT and DELETE /posts/:postId/
• GET and POST /posts/:postId/comments
• PUT and DELETE /posts/:postId/comments/commentId

It does server-side validation of input data, respond with proper status code.

$ git clone https://github.com/gterranova/edx-nodejs-assignment-2.git
$ cd edx-nodejs-assignment-2.git
$ npm i
$ npm run serve

Then you can play with the api at http://localhost:3000

• I followed the instructions;
• then, I wanted the comments to be returned along with the posts because they would be shown together with the post they refer to (hence, no actual need of "/posts/.../comments" endpoints, which I kept anyway);
• I made a draft of front-end to easily play with the API, using knockout which I do not know very well (other solutions, like angular seemed overkilling and a front-end was not even a requirement, so forgive for the poor implementation);
• All in-memory data manipulation is delegated to the store, which is injected to the request object via middleware.

I tested the results with curl, and played with the API via the example front-end.

• Everything works as expected;
• the front-end is not complete, e.g. no authentication, no client-side validation, no error notification on API calls (but at least acts accordingly).