This week, I learned how to create a JSON API for the betherenyc data using ‘response.json(‘jsonData’)’ in NodeJS. Here’s the feed: http://betherenyc.herokuapp.com/api/allevents/

You can follow the code for the whole project on GitHub: https://github.com/michelleboisson/betherenyc

// return all event entries in json format
app.get('/api/allevents', function(request, response){</code>

// defining the fields I want to include in the json data
includeFields = ['name','desc','urlslug','date','time','place'];

// query for all events
queryConditions = {}; //empty conditions - return everything
var query = Event.find( queryConditions, includeFields);

query.sort('date',-1); //sort by most recent
query.exec(function (err, eventPosts) {

jsonData = {
'status' : 'OK',
'events' : eventPosts
}
response.json(jsonData);
});
});

We are using Heroku for deploying our apps in class. Heroku is a service to host your web application in the ‘cloud’. Their tools allow us to easily increase the number of servers, database and performance of your web site if you have an unexpected wave of traffic.

I got everything installed and launched this simple app to prove it:
http://bethere-heroku.herokuapp.com/

I will be building on this throughout the semester.

Our assignment this week was to get comfortable with Javascript. We had to create a simple form to collect data and use javascript to manipulate the html elements. I decided to start create creating a form that will be used to get event data for betherenyc. On submit, a new event is added to the “Recently Added” list on the side. You can also click on the titles on this list and get more information about each event.

View the page here.