Chitter Challenge

Chitter is a small Twitter clone that allows users to post messages to a public wall.

Technologies

This app was created using Express and EJs. The database is managed with Postgres and uses the ORM Sequelize. Tests have been written and run using Cypress.

Instructions

Fork this repo, avigate to your chosen directory and clone from your terminal

git clone git@github.com:hanna-98/chitter-challenge.git

Install dependencies

npm install

Create a .env file and add these ennvironment variables:

# be sure not to include spaces
DATABASE='your database name'
DATABASE_USER='your postgres username'
DATABASE_PASSWORD='your postgres password if you have one'
SESSIONS_SECRET='choose a password for sessions'

Create and migrate development and test databases

npx sequelize-cli db:create
npx sequelize-cli db:migrate
NODE_ENV=test npx sequelize-cli db:create
NODE_ENV=test npx sequelize-cli db:migrate

Start the Postgres server

pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres start

To run the app:

node app.js
# or
npx nodemon app.js

To run the tests:

# start the app in the test environment 
NODE_ENV=test npx nodemon app.js
# then open cypress
NODE_ENV=test npx cypress open

User journey

Mockup