Galvanize Bookshelf Validations

README.md

Server-side Validations for Galvanize Bookshelf

Change into your project directory.

cd galvanize-bookshelf

Ensure the staging area of the master branch is clean. Then, create and checkout a new feature branch.

git checkout -b validations

Install the following NPM packages.

npm install --save joi@^9.0.4 express-validation

Make a new validations directory.

mkdir validations

And create one validation file per route file.

touch validations/authors.js
touch validations/books.js
touch validations/token.js
touch validations/users.js

Then, add rules to validate the req.body of all POST requests for the following route files.

• routes/authors.js
• routes/books.js
• routes/token.js
• routes/users.js

Bonus

Then, add rules to validate the req.body of all PATCH requests for the following route files.

• routes/authors.js
• routes/books.js

Resources

• express-validation Documentation
• joi Documentation