updated gitignore and started trying to get mongoose schema set up
Got data to start populating the database.  need to add date created, clean the data to remove the incomplete records added, then get them rendering on the front end
probably failed beginnings of an attempt to add angularjs to the application.  i wanted to test to see if my mongoose setup would show me the right data on the frontend, and the only way i know how is to use angular.  however i have never added angular into an existing project and i'm very unsure of what to do. need to sleep on it
kind of useless commits here so far, but i scrapped what i was doing and decided to just start adding angular from the ground up, starting off in one file instead of worrying about the file structure for the time being.  just want to show data dynamically on the frontend, hope to accomplish this tomorrow
created bare bones api to view all photos in a json response.  works, need to figure out how to show on the front end now
have mongodb data rendering on the front end with angular boo ya jim!  still need to separate angular controllers/services etc to didifferent files, but this is working.
decided against trying to move code to its proper place, going to do whatever i have to do to get the code to work.  during these 30 days its more important to have something functioning than worrying about the details and getting nothing done.  going to add in challenges
got challenges rendering out in front endend, but dont think im referencing the photos correctly.  the object ids are in the database but im not sure how those are correct, and if they are, how do i render them in angular since its just a number?
moved some code around, going crazy trying to just add a challenge while the photos are set as references to another schema.  if creating this post form in angular doesnt work ill hardcode the photos array into the schema
sloppy, but got angular to return a challenge with photos hard coded into it rather than using a reference.  going to have to keep it this way i think, saving me a lot of trouble to just do it this way
got post request on the front end working where it will create a challenge with an embedded photo array of just one photo.
merging attemping-api branch