inquiry

A concept questions and answer website. For my semester project.

Try

http://inquiry-app.herokuapp.com

Functionalties

• User registration / Login
• User can ask questions
• User can edit own questions
• User can delete own questions
• User can answer questions
• User can edit answers
• User can delete own answer
• User can post comments on both questions and answers
• User can search questions
• Questions have tags
• Questions have categories
• Questions can have points
• Notifications when someone answers your questions or posts a comment
• Answers can have points
• Homepage shows questions with most points that day
• Reputation system not included (i think, atleast thats the plan for now)

API Routes

Beware, some routes may be missing. Based mostly on this https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/ also https://stackoverflow.com/questions/638868/getting-out-of-crud

Question

Create

Method	Path	Description
POST	/api/questions	Creates question (associated with the logged in user)
POST	/api/questions/comments/:id	Creates comment on the question with the :id

Read

Method	Path	Description
GET	/api/questions	Get all questions
GET	/api/questions/:id	Get one question
GET	/api/questions?limit=25&offset=50	Limit returned questions to 25 and skip the first 50 questions
GET	/api/questions?sort=votes|views|creation?order=asc|desc	Sort on parameter
GET	/api/questions?fromdate=ISO8601DateString&todate=ISO8601DateString	Bracket by date

Update

Method	Path	Description
PUT	/api/questions/:id	updates the question (oh boy)

Delete

Method	Path	Description
DELETE	/api/questions/:id	Deletes the question :id
DELETE	/api/questions/:qid/comments/:cid	Delete comment :cid on the question :qid

Misc

Method	Path	Description
POST	/api/questions/upvote/:id/	Upvotes question :id
POST	/api/questions/undo/upvote/:id	Undo Upvotes question :id
POST	/api/questions/downvote/:id	Downvote question :id
POST	/api/questions/downvote/undo/:id/	Undo Downvotes question :id

User

Method	Path	Description
POST	/api/users/register	Registers users
POST	/api/users/login	Login users (Issues JWT)
DELETE	/api/users/	Delete user
PUT	/api/users/:id	Update user :id
GET	/api/users/checkUsername	Checks username

Answer

Create

Method	Path	Description
POST	/api/answers/:qid	Answer the question :qid

Update

Method	Path	Description
PUT	/api/answers/:id	updates the answer (oh boy)

Upvotes

Method	Path	Description
POST	/api/answers/upvote/:id/	Upvotes answer :id
POST	/api/answers/undo/upvote/:id	Undo Upvotes answer :id
POST	/api/answers/downvote/:id	Downvote answer :id
POST	/api/answers/downvote/undo/:id/	Undo Downvotes answer :id

Comments

Method	Path	Description
POST	/api/answers/comments/:id	Creates comment on the answer :id
DELETE	/api/answers/:aid/comments/:cid	Delete comment :cid on the answer :aid

Comments

Method	Path	Description
POST	/api/comments/upvote/:id	Upvotes comment on the post :id

Edits

Method	Path	Description
POST	api/questions/edit/approve/:id	Approved edit with the delta (revision) :id
POST	api/answers/edit/approve/:id	Approved edit with the delta (revision) :id

Search

Method	Path	Description
GET	/api/search/:query	Search everything
GET	/api/search/:query?sort=votes|views|oldest|newest	Search everything with sort parameter
GET	/api/search/:query?limit=25&offset=50	Limit returned questions to 25 and skip the first 50 questions

Notes about the Client

• React client needs some work
• It was put together in a couple of days just before submission date
• Its not fully finished yet
• Might work on it later
• Style over substance

Thanks to

• MongoDB Atlas for free cluster
• Heroku for hosting
• The entire open source community. Without their code, none of this would be possible.

By

Haider Ali Khichi @candhforlife