Inventory Management
In order to practice CRUD operations, I created a pokemon-adoption themed website that allows users to create, read, update, and delete various pokemon, nature, types, and pokemon instances.
In implementing this, I went with a MVC structure using Express.js, Node.js, Mongoose and pug. I populated the database with the original 151 pokemon using pokeapi, a RESTful API. I also randomly populated the database with pokemon instances based on this data, adding properties tailored for the app such as adoption status.
A challenge I faced while developing this app was adding a property to be saved in the database that was dependent on other database items. I wanted to be able to determine the value of the property without having to make additional database calls to check the other items. To accomplish this, I learned and implemented post and pre schema middleware, updating the property when there is a database call that needs to be made anyways.