README.md

FACN7 Social platform

A group project for Founders and Coders Nazareth, week 8

Link to Heroku

how to install

You can clone the repo by typing the command

> git clone https://github.com/FACN7/week8-postfeed-on.git
> cd week8-postfeed-on
> npm i
> google-chrome index.html

user journey

We are the 7th cohort of Founders & Coders and we want our own social platform. And now we can:

• Sign up to the application
• Log in to the pplication
• See all the posts on the main page
• Add a new post to the feed
• Upload a picture to the post using URL
• If there is no picture, or pic URL doesn't include JPG or PNG extension, only the text content will be uploaded
• Log out

our process:

• Set up project architecture
• Set up a server
• Set up a database
• Host on Heroku incl database
• Server-side rendering of users and posts
• Add log in
• Add sign up
• Add a post mechanics
• Server-side validation
• CSS
• Tests

Stretch goals:

• Authentication
• Delete a post
• Client-side validation of URL
• Codecov and Travis

new stuff we've learned

• Lots of Express syntax
• How to use Promises pretty much everywhere we used callbacks before
• How to use handlebars and layouts

we are proud of:

• Mostly using Promises, reducing usage of callbacks to minimum
• Using new syntax (Async - Await)
• Completing a stretch goal of adding authentication which works smoothly
• UI is getting friendly (although some extra work could be done)