Meow API: See It Here

Lessons Learned:

• how to build a server side api using Node and Express
• using a public folder and the code needed in the server.js to have all the files automatically outputted
• how to create an alt tag only when the images were sent back from the server request
• how to connect the client side javascript to the server side javascript
• using cors to ensure if the repo is cloned locally, it will still be able to fetch the data
• debugging why the .toLowerCase() method wasn't working when inputting the cat types in the input, it was because the cat types in the object all were uppercased
• connecting to Railway and debugging why it wasn't locating my server.js file, needed to create a Procfile with this command in it web: node server.js

Optimizations:

• finish responsiveness
• add more cats to have different cat breeds