Project 2 Message Board

This is a simple message board. Users can create posts, comments and comment replies and 'like' each separately, similarly to reddit.

Wireframes

User Stories

• As a user I should be able to see all available posts
• As a user I should be able to create a new post
• As a user I should be able to 'like' a post
• As a user I should be able to see all comments within a post
• As a user I should be able to comment on a specific post
• As a user I should be able to 'like' a comment or comments
• As a user I should be able to reply to a comment and see replies from other users
• As a user I shoudld be able to 'like' a reply

ERD

npm Modules

1. Express
   • Used for Node.js server
2. Morgan
   • Terminal logger
3. Async
   • Allows us to run functions asynchronously
4. Body Parser
   • Allows us to parse HTML and find json object based on input/textarea names
5. EJS
   • For EJS templates and getting content from json objects
6. Marked
   • Parses markdown to HTML
7. Path
   • Used to set up public folder for static files
8. Pg-Promise
   • Used to read SQL queries on Node
9. Method Override • Used for PUT and DELETE requests

Download Project & Install

1. Git clone or download this project
2. Create a PostgreSQL database called 'project_2_db'
3. On your terminal, run psql -d project_2_db -f migrations/migrations.sql
4. If you haven't already, install nodemon package (npm install -g nodemon)
5. Run nodemon, app should be available on localhost:3000