Taptrust API

Getting Started

Make sure you have Node.js installed.

$ git clone git@github.com:taptrust/taptrust.git # or clone your own fork
$ cd taptrust

Running Backend Server

The backend server uses Node.js, Express and PostgreSQL.

1. Set DATABASE_URL environment variable to your postgres development database. You can do that from the command line with export DATABASE_URL={DATABASE_URL}. (ElephantSQL has a sandbox postgres option if you don't want to run it locally).
2. npm install to install dependencies.
3. Run sequelize db:migrate.
4. Initialize dev server with npm run start:dev, which starts at localhost:8000.

Running Frontend Server

The frontend server uses React, webpack, and Node.js.

1. The frontend is in the view folder. Navigate to this folder with cd view.
2. npm install
3. Runnpm start. (Frontend has it's own package.json.). The frontend server runs on localhost:8080.

Post first token/review

• With database server and frontend server running, you can POST your first token at localhost:8080/tokenform.
• After a token is posted you can POST your first review at localhost:8080/reviewform/:tokenId, where tokenId is the id of the token that you want to review.

API

In addition, you can GET, POST, PUT, DELETE at these routes:

POST:

• /api/tokens to create a new token. Response will be 201 Created for success or 400 Bad Request for error.
• /api/tokens/:tokenId/reviews to create a new review for a token (:tokenId is the id of the token you want to add a review of). This request will also update the aggregate scores of the token, which are the average of each score category. Response will be 201 Created for success or 400 Bad Request for error.

GET:

• /api/tokens to GET all tokens and their reviews. Response will be 200 OK for success or 400 Bad Request for error.
• /api/tokens/:name to GET a specific coin, and it's reviews. Response will be 200 OK for success, 404 Token not found, or 400 Bad Request for error.
• /api/tokens/:tokenId/review to GET all of a specific token's reviews. Response will be 200 OK for success or 400 Bad Request for error.
• /api/reviews/:reviewId to GET a specific review. Response will be 200 OK for success or 400 Bad Request for error.

PUT:

• /api/tokens/:tokenId to update a specific coin. Response will be 200 OK for success or 400 Bad Request for error.
• /api/reviews/:reviewId to update a specific review. Response will be 200 OK for success or 400 Bad Request for error.

DELETE:

• /api/tokens/:tokenId to delete a token. Response will be 204 No Content for success or 400 Bad Request for error.
• /api/tokens/:tokenId/reviews/:reviewId to delete a review. Response will be 204 No Content for success or 400 Bad Request for error.

Tokens:

Field Names	Field Type	Description
id	Integer	Automatically generated id for a given token
name	String	The name of the token
category	String	A token's given category (Utilities, Social, General, ect).
description	Text	A longer description of the token and it's unique qualities.
age	String	The age of the token since it's creation (In years, months).
symbol	String	The token's abbreviated symbol, eg. ETH or LTC.
website	String	The website of the token, leaving off 'http://' (eg. taptrust.com).
founders	String	A single founder, or a single string of founders separated by commas.
score_overall	Integer	The average of all of a token's score_overall reviews. Entered automatically
score_transparency	Integer	The average of all of a token's score_transparency reviews. Entered automatically
score_governance	Integer	The average of all of a token's score_governance reviews. Entered automatically
score_legal	Integer	The average of all of a token's score_legal reviews. Entered automatically
score_functionality	Integer	The average of all of a token's score_functionality reviews. Entered automatically
createdAt	Date	Automatically generated datetime that the token was created
updatedAt	Date	Automatically generated datetime that the token was last updated

The above fields should be sent in POST/PUT requests using x-www-form-urlencoded params.

All token score fields will be automatically entered once a review for the coin is POSTed. They will be null until then.

Reviews:

Field Names	Field Type	Description
id	Integer	Automatically generated id for a given review
tokenId	Integer	id of the token to which this review corresponds. Generated from URL during POST request
name	String	The name of the person leaving a review.
review	Text	A longer format review of a given token, minimum 100 characters.
url	String	Url for a website of the reviewer. (Personal website, Medium, Twitter, ect)
score_overall	Integer	Average of all other scores. Automatically entered after other scores are entered
score_transparency	Integer	A score for a given token based on it's transparency, 0-100.
score_legal	Integer	A score for a given token based on it's legal status, 0-100.
score_functionality	Integer	A score for a given token based on it's functionality, 0-100.
score_governance	Integer	A score for a given token based on it's governance, 0-100.
createdAt	Date	Automatically generated datetime that the review was created
updatedAt	Date	Automatically generated datetime that the review was last updated

Testing:

1. Set TESTDB_URL environment variable to your postgres development database. You can do that from the command line with export TESTDB_URL={TESTDB_URL}. (ElephantSQL has a sandbox postgres option if you don't want to run it locally).
2. Run sequelize db:migrate --env test to set up a replica of your development database on the test database.
3. Run npm test.