A simple social media web application that uses Dog API to randomly generate images. The API/backend was developed using Node.js, Express.js and SQLite. The frontend was developed with React and React-Router.

1. In a terminal, navigate to the api folder of this project.
2. Run npm install to install the server's dependencies. (Only for first time use)
3. Enter npm run dev to start the server. This will start on http://localhost:3000.

1. In a new terminal, navigate to the client folder of this project.
2. Enter npm install to install the client's dependencies. (Only for first time use)
3. Enter npm run dev to start the client. This will start on http://localhost:5173.

• Additonal routes could be added to provide functionalities such as deleting or editing posts (using DELETE or PATCH)
• Rate limiting to protect API from DOS attacks
• Login/authentication routes/middleware for sign-in/sign-up
• Could implement caching on client or intermediary key-value datastore with Redis to retrieve data that infrequently changes

• Various hosting services such as Vercel, AWS, Netifly, GCP etc.
• Could utilize FaaS (AWS Lambda or GCP Cloud Functions) to deploy less computationally heavy API/application
• Could also containerize application with Docker and deploy on virtual machine (AWS EC2)