Backend progress - imkarin/bloktech GitHub Wiki

Week 1

• Setup the boilerplate for the dating app
• Added and tested several NPM modules

Week 2

• Setup Express server for the dating app
• Research: template engine
• Research: npm packages
• Installed and implemented EJS

Week 3

• Content is now dynamic, user profiles, user's liked list etc. are data on the server, that's being loaded into the HTML.
• (Dis)like buttons are now form-buttons, that register the user's choices to the server. The (dis)liked person gets removed from the 'browse' page and liked people get added to the user's liked list.

Week 4

• Connected the server to the MongoDB database

Week 5

• Server now reads, updates, creates and delete data in database.
• Sessions: Users can login to see their own data (matches/pending likes, browse-page with people they haven't seen yet). See the code of week 5 here.