courses-backend

Welcome to courses-backend, an express server setup to deliver information on Georgia Tech courses.

To run the server, navigate to the root directory of the application in the cli and run the command node app.js. It is configured to run locally on port number 8080.

Using the routes

Static Course Info

For a list of all courses:

/api/course

For accessing a list of courses from one subject:

/api/course/:subject

For example, /api/course/ACCT

For accessing a specific course:

/api/course/:subject/:number

For example, /api/course/ACCT/2101

Database Query

This app uses mongodb as its database type. The app assumes that the database has a collection called courses which contains documents of the following structure:

{
  "subject": "ACCT",
  "number": "2101",
  "description": "Short description.",
  "name": "Accounting I"
}

To access this data from the database, use the same queries used for the static info, with the following change to the route:

/api/db/course/...

For example, api/db/course/ACCT/2101

Course Critique Query

There is also a route that queries the coursecritique website:

/api/coursecritique/:id

For example /api/coursecritique/ACCT2101.