api/comments.js

@@ -3,11 +3,11 @@ const { Comment, User, Vote } = require('../db/models')
 
 module.exports = router
 
-
 router.get('/', async (req, res, next) => {
   try {
     const comments = await Comment.findAll({
-      attributes: ['id', 'text']})
+      include: ['replies', 'user'],
+    })
     res.send(comments)
   } catch (err) {
     next(err)
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ router.get('/', async (req, res, next) => {
 router.get('/:id', async (req, res, next) => {
   try {
     const comment = await Comment.findByPk(req.params.id, {
-      attributes: ['id', 'text']})
+      attributes: ['id', 'text'],
+    })
     res.json(comment)
   } catch (err) {
     next(err)

db/models/index.js

@@ -18,6 +18,11 @@ Tag.belongsToMany(Article, { through: 'articleTags' })
 Comment.belongsTo(Article)
 Comment.belongsTo(User)
 Comment.hasMany(Vote)
+Comment.belongsTo(Comment, { as: 'parent' })
+Comment.hasMany(Comment, {
+  as: { singular: 'reply', plural: 'replies' },
+  foreignKey: 'parentId',
+})
 Vote.belongsTo(Comment)
 Vote.belongsTo(User)
 

db/seed.js

@@ -30,7 +30,12 @@ const testArticles = [{ title: 'latest news', text: 'waddup?!' }]
 
 const testTags = [{ name: 'dox' }]
 
-const testComments = [{ text: 'pretty good' }]
+const tc1 = { text: 'pretty good' }
+const tc2 = { text: 'yeah!' }
+const tc3 = { text: 'could be more detailed tho' }
+const tc4 = { text: 'BUT THE INSECTS' }
+const tc5 = { text: 'HAHAHAHAHA' }
+const tc6 = { text: 'oh shut up' }
 
 const testVotes = [{ upvote: 0, downvote: 1 }]
 
@@ -58,14 +63,30 @@ async function runSeed() {
 
     const a1 = await Article.create(testArticles[0])
     const t4 = await Tag.create(testTags[0])
-    const c1 = await Comment.create(testComments[0])
+    const c1 = await Comment.create(tc1)
+    const c2 = await Comment.create(tc2)
+    const c3 = await Comment.create(tc3)
+    const c4 = await Comment.create(tc4)
+    const c5 = await Comment.create(tc5)
+    const c6 = await Comment.create(tc6)
     const v1 = await Vote.create(testVotes[0])
 
     await a1.setUser(u1)
     await a1.addTag(t4)
-    await a1.addComment(c1)
+    await a1.addComments(c1, c2, c3, c4, c5, c6)
+
     await c1.setUser(u2)
+    await c2.setUser(u1)
+    await c3.setUser(u2)
+    await c4.setUser(u1)
+    await c5.setUser(u1)
+    await c6.setUser(u2)
+
     await c1.addVote(v1)
+    await c1.addReply(2)
+    await c2.addReplies([c3, c4])
+    await c5.setParent(c4)
+    await c6.setParent(c1)
 
     console.log('seeded successfully')
   } catch (err) {

package.json

@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@
     "morgan": "^1.9.1",
     "nodemon": "^1.19.1",
     "pg": "^7.11.0",
-    "sequelize": "^5.8.11"
+    "sequelize": "^5.8.11",
+    "uuid": "^3.3.2"
   },
   "scripts": {
     "seed": "node db/seed.js",