Lab 6

 Hey PC readers,

Welcome back to my blog!

This week was after the study week and finally no more labs and PR every week. Phew! 

Guess what! I had more  6-7 PRs and I completed Hacktoberfest! woohoo :D

Okay back to this week, I got too excited for Hacktoberfest completion. So this week was something new again. We talked about Telescope, I read on Slack and joined its channel for more info too. But never really worked on it. So this week, we had to do its setup and do a mini task with it. Well, not so mini, but yeah mini according to Telescope code lines. The setup was confusing at first, I got scared really when I read it the first time. There were so many technologies I never heard of. I read and closed it, whew, lots of readings to do first. But then fews days later, I opened it up again. Things made more sense this time. I started doing exactly what was told in the steps, WSL made the life easier. The setup was done, although I did came across an issue, here in the screenshot below it says to run the first command  sudo systemctl start docker

 but that command was not working. I read a few blogs of the students who did it already and figured that doing the second command straight would do it. I did that and it worked. That was really helpful!

 

Alright, rest everything worked fine. And I ran the Telescope server, it worked perfectly. I got my ten posts with its id and url on my 3000 port.

 

Now all I had to do was to use my Link checker to get these urls instead of the ones I provided in the test.txt file that I gave manually.

I started and looked at my code, and realized that my code indeed was in good state and manageable that I did not have to make a lot of changes. The code was modularized too, so I didnt have to edit a lot of existing code. I created a new js file called restHandler where I added the code to  receive these posts by using an endpoint which was 

http://localhost:3000/posts

We would get our 10 posts from here and then I would save them to a new file called postsUrl.txt. The posts list was in Json format so I had to use JSON.stringify in order to use it in my file. I used axios for the fetching previously in my code and in this lab too. I did not make any changes to my fileHandler.js which was handling most of the previous labs code like clicolor, links status, status codes etc. All I added was the new option with 

.option('-e, --endpoint <url>', 'URL to fetch post list');

My code was up and running. The gist can be found here for my code : https://gist.github.com/chawlapalak/15d026b30c8dd4801e714669f6566183

 

See you in my next blog!

Best regards,

PC