Assignment 10

For this assignment, you are going to build a single API endpoint in Express that fetches and caches data from a GitHub API endpoint.

The endpoint you are going to build will be GET /api/github/:username, where :username can be filled in with a GitHub username (e.g. /api/github/iamdtang). When you make a request to this endpoint, use the :username variable in the URL to make a request to https://api.github.com/users/iamdtang (where iamdtang will be whatever :username contains) using Axios. Extract out the public_repos property in the response and write it out to a file named after the requested username (e.g. iamdtang.txt). Your endpoint should respond with JSON structured as follows, where reposCount contains the value from public_repos:

{
  "repoCount": 121
}

Subsequent requests to this endpoint for the same username should read the repo count from the file instead of making a request to the GitHub API and should still respond with the response above.

Code Requirements

When using the fs module, only use the writeFile() and readFile() methods.
To make the request using Axios, use axios.get().

Submission

Create a short video using Zoom where you demo your endpoint. Please use 2 different GitHub usernames in your video demo. Create a brand new repository for this assignment. Send an email to Brighton and me with the URL to your GitHub repository and the link to your Zoom video with the subject: "ITP 405 - Assignment 10".