Server Project
Your project this week is to build a microblogging site. It should allow users to submit their own posts and view all the posts submitted by others.
Note: we aren’t expecting the data to persist when the server restarts (we’ll be looking at databases for this next week).
Spike
Before you start implementing features you need to figure out how to deploy a Node app to Fly.io.
Fly is a “Platform-as-a-service” provider (PaaS). PaaS is a type of cloud computing service that provides users with a platform for deploying and managing apps. They provide a convenient way for developers to quickly get their apps up and running without having to worry about the technical details of the infrastructure and resources they need.
Questions to consider
- What are environment variables and why might we want to hide them?
- How can we automatically deploy commits to our
mainbranch?
Useful resources
- Deploying web apps to Fly.io (you don’t need to worry about the “Persistent Volumes” section for this week’s spike)
- Continuous Deployment with Fly and GitHub Actions
User stories
Core
- As an opinionated person, I want to: post my thoughts so others can read them
- As a bored person, I want to: read what other people have posted
Stretch
- As an impulsive person, I want to: delete my posts so no one can see them anymore