Mongoose Creation, Updates, & Queries Lab

Introduction

Imagine you work for a pet shelter, and you've been asked to create an MVP for a web application that will allow you to keep track of adoptions, abandonments, and drop-offs. Using Node, Express, MongoDB, and Mongoose, build a small app that will allow a user to manipulate pet records.

Exercise

Requirements

• The application will represent an animal shelter and the user will have options to:

  • Adopt a pet
  • Abandon a pet
  • Leave a new pet in the shelter

• The root page, ‘/animals’, will show a list of animals

• For each animal on the index, a link will be displayed

  • If the animal is "orphaned", the link will be to "adopt" the animal
  • If the animal is "adopted", the link will be to "abandon" the animal

• You will also need to create a form on the index where a user can input a new animal with the following data points:

  • Breed
  • Family
  • Name
  • Gender
  • DOB

• Create a model Animal with these fields:

  • name(String)
  • breed(String)
  • DOB(Date)
  • gender(String)
  • family(String)
  • status(String)

Note: The “status” should default to “abandoned” when a user creates the animal, so after the pet was “created” or dropped off at the shelter, a user could click the link to adopt the pet.

Bonus:

• Add some style
• Add a field image to link pictures from the web
• Add validations with Mongoose
• Add a member_since field to your model that is defined by a custom model method. A user should never have to update this field explicitly, but rather it should be defined automatically on the click of the "Add an animal" button
• Create a "success" view that shows all animals that have been adopted

Starter code

In the starter code folder, you'll find a Node app containing all the packages you need to get started - run npm install to set the packages and create a Mongo database named animalshelter.

Deliverable

Additional Resources

• Express JS documentation
• MongooseJS documentation