Microblogging app that deploys to Netlify. This is the repository for the Rails backend.

• Rails backend API
• React frontend

This app allows you to sign in as a user and create microblogging posts. You can edit or delete each post you've created.

Then, you can choose from 3 different layouts for your blog. Once you're satisfied you can click "Deploy" to deploy your blog as a static site to Netlify. If you make any changes, you can always redeploy.

The Rails API consists of the following endpoints:

• GET /posts --> Retrieve all posts

• POST /posts --> Create a new post

• PUT /posts/:id --> Modify a post

• DELETE /posts/:id --> Delete a post

• POST /deploys --> Deploy to Netlify

Blogs are deployed to Netlify by generating an index.html page from your posts and chosen layout, and zipping the file up with a stylesheet to be sent to Netlify.

The React frontend communicates with the Rails backend through the API. Tokens are used for user authentication.

Test user in seeds.rb -- [email protected] / netlify123

By default the frontend makes request to the localhost on port 3001. So, you can run the app as so:

rails s -p 3001

• Add ability to create a new user (as of now you can only log in with existing users)
• Restrict parameters with permitted_params
• Add errors returned from backend to the UI