Backend development talk for HackGTeeny

• Install Node.JS on your computer
  • If you already have it, make sure your version's up to date
• Get a dope text editor
  • Try Sublime Text or Atom or literally anything
• Run npm install to install all of the prerequisite packages for this project.
• To get the project itself running, enter node index.js into your terminal
• Visit http://127.0.0.1:3000 to see your app in action!
• Congrats, that's it!

• This folder has a finished copy of the backend code we'll be building. If something doesn't work in your code, try to reference that code. We'll hopefully be live-coding though, so just follow around and you should be fine.
• After the frontend workshop, you should be experts already. The folder for the frontend is located in public and will contain an example app that interfaces with our backend.
  • The UI looks like garbage on purpose; it's a backend course, after all

• We're gonna build a garbage social media platform, where you'll be able to share & 'caption' gifs.

• Add a voting system
• Add a user system
• Integrate the voting and user system so people can only vote once
  • Track peoples' favorite gifs
• Update gifs in real time on the home page
  • Look into WebSockets to help with this
    • Or maybe even a frontend framework!
  • Or just make a lot of AJAX requests