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• Introduction
• Planning
• Features
• Future Features
• Reflection
• Technologies
• Resources
• Contributor

This api was built in Express for the Blueprint take home challenge, and includes a /get and /post request.

Linear Board Used for planning and organizing FE & BE tasks

Data Planning Implemented to organize data structure and user flows

• /get request includes /screener url which returns the screener object
• /post request takes in an array of patient answers and returns level_two_assesments based on scores

*** domains data is currently hard-coded in the express api. I considered learning mysql in order to apply this properly, but decide to focus on building an effective backend in express and a user-friendly UI.

If given more time to work on the back-end of this application, my main focuses would be :

Another thing I'm interested in learning more about is how to make this api secure. Because the /post request deals with sensitive information, it seems important that this data would have no possibility in being interested.

Because it was my first time building a functional backend with express, it took some learning to figure out how to test the requests I was making. Eventually I figured out how to use nodemon for active refreshes, and apply the correct urls to the local environments to ensure my /get requests were working. However, I'm still uncertain on how to test the /post request, even manually, and would have spent more time on that.

While I attempted to implement appropriate responses for 400 and 500 status codes, I am not entirely sure how effective those methods are, and am quite certain there could be more improvement in this regard.

Overall I had a great learning experience building a functional backend with express for the first time! The struggles I had included having difficulty testing the conversation between the front and backend, but overall enjoyed the process of working more with the backend.

• Express
• Nodemon
• Deployed on Vercel

• If you're interested in the resources I used to learn Express and write the code, I made a google doc of the bookmarks I made throughout the process here

• Catlyn Bowles