week3-learning-objectives.md

Week 3 Learning Objectives

Express

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

Express Routes & Parameters

• Create flexible, dynamic routes with parameterized route urls
• Process data sent to a server through query strings
• Process data sent from named form fields (as with POST requests)
• Identify Express routing patterns that can be used for PUT, PATCH, and DELETE requests

MongoDB/Mongoose

• Explain how MongoDB and Mongoose are related
• Describe the relationship between schemas and models in Mongoose
• Create Mongoose model instances
• Using Mongoose, integrate a MongoDB database with an Express project

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

Personal API & Heroku

• Deploy server side code to Heroku to make an API publically accessible
• Write an API documentation endpoint at the /api path
• Build an API from scratch