Mock EPL API

An API that serves the latest scores of fixtures of matches in a “Mock Premier League”

Table of Contents

• Technology Stack
• Features
• Getting Started
• Pre-requisites
• Installation
• Running tests
• API Endpoints

Technology Stack

• Nodejs
• PostgreSQL
• Redis
• Docker

Features

• Users can
  • Sign in
  • view teams
  • view completed fixtures
  • view pending fixtures
  • search fixtures/teams
• Admin can
  • Sign in
  • manage teams (add, remove, edit, view)
  • create fixtures (add, remove, edit, view)

Getting Started

To run this API locally simply follow the instructions below:

Prerequisites

You need to have or install the following:

1. Git bash
2. Npm
3. Postman

Installation

• clone repo

  git clone https://github.com/fegoworks/premier-league-api.git
  

• navigate to api folder

• run installation

  npm install
  

• create a .env file with this template

  DB_URL='Your postgres database url'
  TEST_URL='Your postgres test database url'
  SECRET = 'Your secret phrase'
  

• start app

  npm run start:dev
  

• you can now make requests using postman to localhost:3000/api/v1/

Running Tests

To run tests simply run the following command in your git bash or command line

npm run test

API endpoints

Heroku: Mock-EPL-API Documentation: Mock-EPL-API-Docs

Endpoints	Functionality
POST /auth/create-user	Create new user account
POST /auth/signin	Login a user
POST /teams	Create a team
POST /fixtures	Create a fixture
PATCH /teams/:teamId	Edit a team
PATCH /fixtures/:fixtureId	Edit a fixture
PATCH /fixtures/:fixtureId/scores	Update a fixture with scores
DELETE /fixtures/:fixtureId	Delete a specific fixture
DELETE /teams/:teamId	Delete a specific team post
GET /fixtures/pending	View pending fixtures
GET /fixtures/completed	View completed fixtures
GET /fixtures/:fixtureId	View a specific fixture
GET /teams/:teamId	View a specific team

Sign up

Send a POST request to /api/v1/auth/create-user with the following JSON structure:

{
  "firstName": "Sensei",
  "lastName": "Saitama",
  "email": "saitama@mail.com",
  "password": "password",
  "isAdmin": "true"
}

For admins isAdmin is provided with true while for users it is set to false. POST and PATCH requests are restricted to only the admin accounts. User accounts can perform GET requests.

Sign in with the user

Send a POST request to /api/v1/auth/signin, with the following:

{
	"email": ,
	"password":
}

When you signin you'll receive a Bearer token. You'll need this token to send any request related to teams and fixtures.

Frow now on, every request described here will require you send the Bearer token

Create a new team

Send a POST request to /api/v1/teams, with the following:

{
  "teamName": "Barcelona"
}

View a single team

Send a GET request to /api/v1/teams/:teamid

Edit a team

Send a PATCH request to /api/v1/teams/:teamid, with the following:

{
  "teamName": "Norwich"
}

Delete a team

Delete a team by placing its id in the DELETE request URL /api/v1/teams/:teamid.

Create a fixture

Send a POST request to /fixtures, with the following:

{
  "matchDate": "03/10/2020",
  "homeTeam": "Crystal Palace",
  "awayTeam": "Chelsea"
}

Edit a fixture

Send a PATCH request to /api/v1/fixtures/:fixtureId, with the following:

{
  "matchDate": "03/10/2020",
  "homeTeam": "Crystal Palace",
  "awayTeam": "Chelsea"
}

View a single fixture

Send a GET request to /api/v1/fixtures/:fixtureid

Delete a fixture

Delete a fixture by placing its id in the DELETE request URL /fixtures/:fixtureid.

Update a fixture with scores

Send a PATCH request to /api/v1/fixtures/:fixtureId/scores, with the following:

{
  "homeTeamScore": 5,
  "awayTeamScore": 2
}

View pending fixtures

Send a GET request to /api/v1/fixtures/pending/

View completed fixtures

Send a GET request to /api/v1/fixtures/completed

Author

Edafe Oghenefego @realFego