Setup

• Fork, Clone, npm install, npm start

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.

Create a server

• npm isntall express
• server/index.js
• listen on port 3001
• connect to your mlab database

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

• use mlab to create a 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

• start your server with "node index.js" and refresh the client webpage to make sure the data is populating properly.