bradtraversy

DevCamper Backend API Specifications

Create the backend for a bootcamp directory website. The frontend/UI will be created by another team (future course). The html/css template has been created and can be used as a reference for functionality. All of the functionality below needs to be fully implmented in this project.

Bootcamps

• List all bootcamps in the database
  • Pagination
  • Select specific fields in result
  • Limit number of results

• Filter by fields

NigelEarle

Migrations & Seeding

What are migrations??

Migrations are a way to make database changes or updates, like creating or dropping tables, as well as updating a table with new columns with constraints via generated scripts. We can build these scripts via the command line using knex command line tool.

To learn more about migrations, check out this article on the different types of database migrations!

Creating/Dropping Tables

NigelEarle

Knex Setup Guide

Create your project directory

Create and initialize your a directory for your Express application.

$ mkdir node-knex-demo
$ cd node-knex-demo
$ npm init