Jan 2025 Improvements

[andydlindsay]

Changes:

• Change date update functionality to only change the in-memory db and not write back to the file (this will save students the confusion of seeing updates on the server that they didn't make)
• Change all functions to arrow functions for consistency
• Remove unnecessary dependencies (MD5 and body-parser)
• Update formatting throughout the project for consistency
• Move data-only endpoints to use the prefix /api
• Return the newly created tweet in response to the POST request
• Update node package versions
• Package-lock file created with Node v16
• Tested with Node versions 14, 16, and 18

[ChristianNally]

For some reason I'm still permitted to see these PRs and could accept it.

Maybe my account needs to be removed from some authorization?

Happy New Year!

[FrancisBourgouin]

While we're modifying those, should we prefix the tweet routes with /api to be consistent with what we tell them in the future? Also, we should modify the POST route so it returns the tweet obj, instead of making them refetch the entire tweets[] for good practice

[andydlindsay]

• I like moving to /api for consistency.
• We have an assignment Refetch Tweets on Submission that would have to be updated as well if we change what the server returns.

[FrancisBourgouin]

Yeah the activity would need to match, but doesn't seem like too much of an update no?