StackOverflow-lite

StackOverflow-lite is a platform where people can ask questions and provide answers.

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Project Overview

StackOverflow-lite is a platform where people can ask questions and provide answers.

Required Features

- Users can create an account and log in.
- Users can post questions.
- Users can delete the questions they post
- Users can post answers
- Users can view the answers
- Users can accept an answer out of all the answers to his/her queston as they preferred answer
- Users can upvote or downvote an answer.
- Users can comment on an answer.
- Users can fetch all questions he/she has ever asked on the platform
- Users can search for questions on the platform
- Users can view questions with the most answers.

Complete Tasks

Complete UI Pages

API End points documentation

Pivot tracker board

Installation

    $ git clone https://github.com/p8ul/stackoverflow-lite

    $ git clone https://github.com/p8ul/stackoverflow-lite.git
    $ cd stackoverflow-lite
    $ virtualenv venv
    $ . venv/bin/activate
    $ pip install -r requirements.txt   

Running the application

    $ export DATABASE_URL="Your DATABASE_URL here"

or open .env file and copy your postgres database url

    #.env file
    DATABASE_URL=postgres://username:password@hostname/databasename
    
    $ python manage.py runserver

Testing

    $ pytest --cov=app

Endpoints

Users Endpoints

Method	Endpoint	Functionality
POST	/api/v1/auth/signup	Add a user
GET	/api/v1/auth/users	Lists all users
GET	/api/v1/auth/users/{user_id}	Retrieve a user
POST	/api/v1/auth/login	Login a user

Questions Endpoints

Method	Endpoint	Functionality
POST	/api/v1/questions	Add a question
GET	/api/v1/questions	Lists all questions
GET	/api/v1/questions/?q={search_string}	Search a questions
GET	/api/v1/questions/{question_id}	Retrieve a question
PUT	/api/v1/questions/{question_id}	Edit a question of a logged in user
DELETE	/api/v1/questions/{question_id}	Delete a request of a logged in user

Answers Endpoints

Method	Endpoint	Functionality
POST	/api/v1/questions/{question_id}/answers	Add an answer
GET	/api/v1/questions/answers	Lists all answers
GET	/api/v1/questions/answers/{answerID}	Retrieve an answer
PUT	/api/v1/questions/{question_id}/answer/{answerID}	Edit an answer
DELETE	/api/v1/questions/{question_id}/answer/{answerID}	Delete an answer
POST	/api/v1/questions/answers/vote/{answer_id}	Upvote/DownVote an answer
POST	/api/v1/questions/answers/comment/{answer_id}	Comment on an answer

Credits

This challenge was part of the Bootcamp 31 NBO Andela.

Credits to Avinash Tripathi for an awesome Stackoverflow redesign concept. Helped in comming up with some dashboard UI components.

License

MIT LICENSE

Author

Paul Kinuthia.