water-my-plants-BE

Building a schedule around ensuring that all your plants are watered is actually pretty difficult. Water My Plants helps to solve those problems by providing and easy to use interface for creating a plant watering schedule that will remind users to water their plants on a regular basis.

Table of contents

• Deployed app
• Contributors
• Technologies used and dependencies
• Installation
• Endpoints description
• Environmental variables
• License

Deployed app

Check out the demo of our API here: DEMO.

Contributors

Ivana Huckova Backend Developer

Contributions of any kind welcome!

Built with

• JavaScript (ECMAScript 6+)
• Express.js
• Knex
• PostgreSQL DB
• jsonwebtoken
• Jest
• Supertest
• Twilio
• Circle CI

Dependencies

• bcryptjs 2.4.3
• cors 2.8.5
• dotenv 8.0.0
• express 4.17.1
• helmet 3.18.0
• jsonwebtoken 8.5.1
• knex 0.17.6
• pg 7.11.0
• sqlite3 4.0.9
• twilio 3.32.0
• uuid 3.3.2
• jest 24.8.0
• nodemon 1.19.1
• supertest 4.0.2

Installation

We recommend to set up this app on Heroku.

1. Fork the repository.
2. Set up an account at Heroku.
3. Create new app.
4. Connect your Github account to Heroku.
5. Select the forked repository.
6. Add the appropriate plugins (Heroku Postgres and Scheduler).
7. Set up the environmental variables.
8. You are all set!

Endpoints description

Auth Routes

user_id = unique id for each user generated on backend

POST : /api/auth/register

Overview

Used to register a user and ensure that user information will be saved in the server

Inputs

Javascript object:

• username - string, required

• email - string, required, unique

• phone_number - string, required, unique

• password - string, required

  {
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "username": "Tony",
    "phone_number": "+420004356783",
    "password": "tony12345" 
  }
  

Success Outputs

Javascript object with success message.

{ message: "success message" } 

Failure Outputs

Javascript object with error.

{ error: "failure error" } 

POST: /api/auth/login

Overview

Used to log in and get authentication for accessing the main functionalities of the React app.

Inputs

Javascript object:

• email - string, required

• password - string, required

  {
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "password": "tony12345"
  }
  

Success Outputs

Javascript object with token used for accessing restricted endpoints.

{
"token": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzdWJqZWN0IjoiNGU4Y2E0OGItZmRiNS00ZmExLWFmNmUtOWFiZjY3YTBhZGE1IiwiZW1haWwiOiJpdmFuYUBpdmFuYS5jb20iLCJpYXQiOjE1NjE1Njc2NzYsImV4cCI6MTU2MTgyNjg3Nn0.ktnILuhbh5HD9LmolRxk125Eg3xyd15H2omWB-i_uC8"
}

Failure Outputs

Javascript object with error.

{ error: "failure error" } 

Plants Routes - only logged in users with token in header

plant_id = unique id for each plant generated on backend and used to access each plant

POST : /api/plants

Overview

Used to create new plant by user.

Inputs

Javascript object:

• name - string

• img_id - string, required

• height - integer

• plant_type - string, required

• watering_frequency - integer, required

• last_watered_at - timestamp, required

  {
    "name": "John",
    "img_id": "1",
    "height": "3"
    "plant_type": "Tulip",
    "watering_frequency": "7",
    "last_watered_at": "2016-01-13 17:38:42",
  }
  

Success Outputs:

Javascript object with plant_id of created plant.

{
"plant_id": "eyJhbGiJIUz-IsInR5cCI6IkpXV76-827u-u6"
}

Failure Outputs

Javascript object with error.

{ error: "failure error" } 

GET : /api/plants

Overview

Used to get all plants that were created by the user

Success Outputs:

Javascript object with array of plants objects.

[
    {
        "table_id": 5,
        "plant_id": "496b9834-038e-4c4d-91ac-5d1f5fcaa211",
        "plant_type": "Suflower",
        "user_id": "01e2d860-37ef-45f7-a383-bfdc0dd2ae35",
        "name": "Greta",
        "img_id": "2",
        "last_watered_at": "2019-06-23T05:10:25.000Z",
        "next_watering_at": "2019-06-28T05:10:25.000Z",
        "height": 44,
        "watering_frequency": 5
    },
    {
        "table_id": 6,
        "plant_id": "f397fe2f-f2a0-44c2-bc92-0de9d3baa45d",
        "plant_type": "Tulip",
        "user_id": "01e2d860-37ef-45f7-a383-bfdc0dd2ae35",
        "name": "John",
        "img_id": "1",
        "last_watered_at": "2019-06-24T05:10:25.000Z",
        "next_watering_at": "2019-06-28T05:10:25.000Z",
        "height": 12,
        "watering_frequency": 4
    },
]

Failure Outputs

Javascript object with error.

{ error: "failure error" } 

GET : /api/plants/:plant_id

Overview

Used to get plant with specific id that was created by the user

Success Outputs

Javascript object with array of plant object.

{
    "table_id": 5,
    "plant_id": "496b9834-038e-4c4d-91ac-5d1f5fcaa211",
    "plant_type": "Suflower",
    "user_id": "01e2d860-37ef-45f7-a383-bfdc0dd2ae35",
    "name": "Greta",
    "img_id": "2",
    "last_watered_at": "2019-06-23T05:10:25.000Z",
    "next_watering_at": "2019-06-28T05:10:25.000Z",
    "height": 44,
    "watering_frequency": 5
}

Failure Outputs

Javascript object with error.

{ error: "failure error" } 

GET : /api/plants/:plant_id/height

Overview

Used to get history of plants height

Success Outputs

Javascript object with array of plant object with height change.

[
    {
        "table_id": 4,
        "plant_id": "496b9834-038e-4c4d-91ac-5d1f5fcaa211",
        "user_id": "01e2d860-37ef-45f7-a383-bfdc0dd2ae35",
        "created_at": "2019-06-25T17:56:03.920Z",
        "height": "44"
    },
    {
        "table_id": 5,
        "plant_id": "496b9834-038e-4c4d-91ac-5d1f5fcaa211",
        "user_id": "01e2d860-37ef-45f7-a383-bfdc0dd2ae35",
        "created_at": "2019-06-26T17:56:03.920Z",
        "height": "45"
    }
]

Failure Outputs

Javascript object with error.

{ error: "failure error" } 

GET : /api/plants/:plant_id/watered

Overview

Used to get history of plants watering frequency

Success Outputs:

Javascript object with array of plant object with watering dates.

Example:

[
    {
        "table_id": 4,
        "plant_id": "496b9834-038e-4c4d-91ac-5d1f5fcaa211",
        "user_id": "01e2d860-37ef-45f7-a383-bfdc0dd2ae35",
        "last_watered_at": "2019-06-23T05:10:25.000Z"
    },
    {
        "table_id": 5,
        "plant_id": "496b9834-038e-4c4d-91ac-5d1f5fcaa211",
        "user_id": "01e2d860-37ef-45f7-a383-bfdc0dd2ae35",
        "last_watered_at": "2019-06-24T05:10:25.000Z"
    }
]

Failure Outputs

Javascript object with error.

{ error: "failure error" } 

PUT : /api/plants/:plant_id

Overview

Used to update plant with specific id that was created by the user

Inputs

Javascript object with optional items for update:

• name - string
• img_id - string
• height - integer
• plant_type - string
• watering_frequency - integer
• last_watered_at - timestamp

Example:

	{
		"watering_frequency": "7",
		"height": "7"
	}

Success Outputs

Javascript object with success message.

{ message: "success message" } 

Failure Outputs

Javascript object with error.

{ error: "failure error" } 

DELETE : /api/plants/:plant_id

Overview

Used to delete plant with specific id that was created by the user

Success Outputs

Javascript object with success message.

{ message: "success message" } 

Failure Outputs

Javascript object with error.

{ error: "failure error" } 

User Routes - only logged in users with token in header

GET : /api/profile

Overview

Used to get data about user

Success Outputs:

Javascript object with array of plants objects.

Example:

{
    "user_id": 1,
    "username": "Sansa",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "phone_number": "123456789"
}

Failure Outputs

Javascript object with error.

{ error: "failure error" } 

PUT : /api/profile

Overview

Used to update users profile

Inputs:

Javascript object with optional for update:

• username - string
• password - string
• email - string
• phone_number - string

Example:

	{
    "phone_number": "+7868188181",
	}

Success Outputs

Javascript object with success message.

{ message: "success message" } 

Failure Outputs

Javascript object with error.

{ error: "failure error" } 

DELETE : /api/profile

Overview

Used to delete user

Failure Outputs

Javascript object with error.

{ error: "failure error" } 

Failure Outputs

Javascript object with error.

{ error: "failure error" } 

Failure Outputs

Javascript object with error.

{ error: "failure error" }

Environmental variables

Remember to set up the required environmental variables, especially when deploying on Heroku.

• ENV = production
• SECRET_KEY as a secret key of your choice
• TWILLIO_TOKEN
• TWILLIO_SID
• TWILIO_MESSAGING_SERVICE_SID
• DATABASE_URL

For more information

Lambda School

License

MIT License