Create a Back-End App with Javascript

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Is it just me, or is the Create a Back-End App with JavaScript rather advanced? I’ve worked through a good portion of the course, but I keep on getting absolutely stumped by most of the cumulative projects, save the beginning ones. I’m just frustrated by the lack of instructions and teaching about the concepts that are featured in the projects, when they are so clearly the very difficult ones that need the most instruction…

I’m asking this question because no one else seems to have, and I’m wondering if I’m either missing something in the course or…? I feel like many beginner to beginner-intermediate (which is how I would describe myself) coders taking the course should be similarly stumped.

Just as an example, here is a snippet of some project instructions (“The Scoop”) –

*** POST**
** * Receives comment information from comment property of request body**
** * Creates new comment and adds it to database, returns a 201 response with comment on comment property of response body**
** * If body isn’t supplied, user with supplied username doesn’t exist, or article with supplied article ID doesn’t exist, returns a 400 response**

And here is the solution code for it. I swear we weren’t taught this, unless I’m missing something.

function createComment(url, request) { const requestComment = request.body && request.body.comment; const response = {}; if (requestComment && requestComment.body && requestComment.articleId && database.articles[requestComment.articleId] && requestComment.username && database.users[requestComment.username]) { const comment = { id: database.nextCommentId++, body: requestComment.body, username: requestComment.username, articleId: requestComment.articleId, upvotedBy: [], downvotedBy: [] }; database.comments[comment.id] = comment; database.users[comment.username].commentIds.unshift(comment.id); database.articles[comment.articleId].commentIds.unshift(comment.id); response.body = {comment: comment}; response.status = 201; } else { response.status = 400; } return response; }
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I feel your pain! I’ve come to terms to the fact that some projects feel like the directions are vague. I try my best and don’t let my brain explode if I’m having issues. If nothing I’m doing is working I just get the answer from somewhere to complete the project (Codecademy, GitHub, whatever). Afterwards I study the working code and learn all the mistakes I made initially. I figure I’m still learning it that way anyway!

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I completely agree with you. I don’t mind that is difficult (let’s say challenging)
But I can’t even run the test, so I can not really follow the guidelines.