Random-word-generator-API

Table of Contents

1. Overview
1. Link to webpage
2. Screenshot
2. My Process
1. Built With
2. How It Works
3. What I Learned
4. Optimizations

Overview

I built an API interface which generates a random word based on the number of characters requested from a database of over 6,500 words.

I developed this API for a word game I am creating. I could not find a similar API that matched my requirements so I created my own.

An API (Application Programming Interface) is a contract that allow developers to interact with an application through a set of interfaces.

Unsure what to do with this API? Some ideas include: developing games, creative writing, spelling and vocabulary.

My application is hosted on Heroku.

Link to webpage:

no longer active

Screenshot

My Process

Built With:

• Node.js
• Express
• EJS
• Javascript
• HTML
• CSS

How It Works

This is an API that generates a random word based on the number of characters requested by the user.

What I Learned

I learned about servers, APIs, databases, EJS, debugging, importing/exporting external JS files, and the different types of status codes. In addition, I learned how to push my code to Heroku, including how to troubleshoot Heroku error codes.

Optimizations:

I would like to provide the following future features/optimizations:

• Create documentation
• Utilize objects for the data and include additional information, such as word definition and speech
• Update the front-end and include additional information for end-user
• Move data to MongoDB