Here, we will build 3 small projects in one to keep learning express.

• Fork this repo
• git clone the forked repository
• cd to the directory where you cloned it
• npm install to install dependencies that are already included in the package.json
• npm test to run the tests
• npm install express dotenv to install new dependencies express and dotenv
• touch app.js server.js .env
• go into package.json and put server.js as the value for the key main

.env

PORT=8888

Note: Remember to git add, git commit and git push regularly

• When finished, commit and push your work.
• Make a pull request on GitHub.

Let's start with a simple activity. Make a route that takes 3 parameters in the URL

• verb
• adjective
• noun

so that if the url is

http://localhost:8888/jumping/joyous/jellybean

The response will be

Congratulations on starting a new project called jumping-joyous-jellybean!

99 little bugs in the code
99 little bugs
Pull one down
Patch it around
101 bugs in the code

• On the home page (get "/bugs"), users should see:
  • "99 little bugs in the code"
  • a link that says "pull one down, patch it around"
  • this should link to /bugs/101, where the number represents the number of bugs remaining to fix
• When a number is given in the url (get "/bugs/:numberOfBugs"), users should see:
  • The number of bugs left in the code (i.e. 101 little bugs in the code)
  • a link to "pull one down, patch it around", where the href is number of bugs in the parameter plus 2
• If there are 200 bugs or more left, do not show a link to "pull one down", rather, add a link to start over, which directs the user back to the home page

• You should use an anchor tag with an href to link to the next 'page'

In The Darkest Timeline: The Pokeapi has gone from free to $1 per API call!

You decide to take it upon yourself to create a new Pokemon API for all to share for free.

You have happened upon a strange pokemon.json file. Rumor has it that a mysterious person who goes by PyritePikachu scraped this data off the internet. It doesn't have anywhere near as much info as Pokeapi and it seems a bit outdated, but that's ok! It's a start!

Confirm you are able to bring in the data from the pokemon.json file

app.js

const pokemon = require("./models/pokemon.json");
console.log(pokemon[0]);

node app.js - to confirm you see an object with Bulbasaur's info.

• make a route /pokemon that will show a list of all the pokemon

• make a route /pokemon/:indexOfArray that returns 1 pokemon at that array position

  • if the array position is invalid or there is no pokemon at that position, instead send sorry, no pokemon found at /pokemon[indexOfArray] - where [indexOfArray] is the value from the URL that the user has entered

• make a route /pokemon/search - where a user can add a query parameter such as http://localhost:8888/pokemon/search?name=oddish

  which will respond with

  {
  name: 'Oddish',
  img: 'http://img.pokemondb.net/artwork/oddish.jpg',
  type: [ 'Grass', 'Poison' ],
  stats: {
    hp: '45',
    attack: '50',
    defense: '55',
    spattack: '75',
    spdefense: '65',
    speed: '30'
  },
  damages: {
    normal: '1',
    fire: '2',
    water: '0.5',
    electric: '0.5',
    grass: '0.25',
    ice: '2',
    fight: '0.5',
    poison: '1',
    ground: '1',
    flying: '2',
    psychic: '2',
    bug: '1',
    rock: '1',
    ghost: '1',
    dragon: '1',
    dark: '1',
    steel: '1'
  },
  misc: {
    classification: 'weed pokemon',
    height: '1’08”',
    weight: '11.9',
    happiness: '70'
  }
  }
  
  

• Instead of just sending JSON, create new routes at /pokemon-pretty/ send some HTML
• for all the pokemon, send an unordered list of anchor tags that link to the array position of the pokemon
• in each individual view /pokemon-pretty/:indexOfArray of a pokemon, instead of JSON, display the name, image and any other info

HRRMMM, adding all this HTML as a string inside the routes is getting unweildly... is there a better way?

• Add search ability for other keys in the pokemon data.

• Use <style></style> and put some CSS in there to style the page

• Use create-react-app and figure out how to connect it to this backend (we'll teach you later on in the course how to do this)