Hack Reactor: Week 4 Day 5 / 6

The last two days of Hack Reactor week four we were working with databases. I have always been interested in databases and had always heard a lot about SQL, so I was really interested to dive into it. As simple as it seems, it was exciting enough just creating a table in the terminal and being able to see the data. The actual project we were using them with was our chat application. The idea was to use a database to store our messages instead of storing them on the server. We really learned a lot, from creating the schemas to actually setting up the queries and how they interact with GET and POST requests. All in all, it was a really great lesson. This is another short blog, but I just wanted to write about that sprint. Databases are such a huge part of software engineering, but as the user we rarely think about them.