week3-learning-objectives.md

Week 3 Learning Objectives

###Express

• Draw a diagram of the request response cycle with Nodejs and Express included and labeled
• Describe the roles that Nodejs and Express play in building a server
• Use npm to initialize a node project
• Write a local web server to serve JSON and static assets with Express

###Params and Routes

• Explain parsing URL params and using query string params
• Apply routing knowledge to build an Express application with dynamic routes
• Understand POST and how it is used to instruct the server to save data

###CRUD App

• Follow a testing suite to build a functional API
• Apply your knowledge Express to build a full CRUD API

###Mongo/Mongoose

• Differentiate and relate the concepts of schemas and models in Mongoose
• Create Mongoose schemas & models and use Mongoose model instances
• Describe the relationship between Mongoose with Express and integrate the two in their projects

###Mongoose relationships

• Describe one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many data relationships
• Write mongoose schemas that can reference and embed data
• Reflect model relationships in server routes

###Sass

• Compare and contrast CSS with Sass
• Process Sass into CSS
• Write more declarative styling rules using Sass

###Agile Development

• Compare and contrast several development methodologies
• Define features as user stories
• Inform a UI with mockups
• Conduct a scrum

###Personal API & Heroku

• Deploy server side code to Heroku so that your APIs will be publically accessible
• Write an API documentation endpoint at the ‘/’ path
• Build an API from scratch