diff --git a/api/.DS_Store b/api/.DS_Store
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diff --git a/api/hubs/hubs-model.js b/api/hubs/hubs-model.js
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+const db = require('../../data/dbConfig.js');
+
+module.exports = {
+  find,
+  findById,
+  add,
+  remove,
+  update,
+  findHubMessages
+};
+
+function find(query) {
+  let { page = 1, limit = 5, sortby = 'id', sortdir = 'asc' } = query;
+  const offset = limit * (page - 1);
+
+  let rows = db('hubs')
+    .orderBy(sortby, sortdir)
+    .limit(limit)
+    .offset(offset);
+
+  return rows;
+}
+
+function findById(id) {
+  return db('hubs')
+    .where({ id })
+    .first();
+}
+
+async function add(hub) {
+  const [id] = await db('hubs').insert(hub);
+
+  return findById(id);
+}
+
+function remove(id) {
+  return db('hubs')
+    .where({ id })
+    .del();
+}
+
+function update(id, changes) {
+  return db('hubs')
+    .where({ id })
+    .update(changes, '*');
+}
+
+function findHubMessages(hubId) {
+  return db('messages as m')
+    .join('hubs as h', 'm.hub_id', 'h.id')
+    .select('m.id', 'm.text', 'm.sender', 'h.id as hubId', 'h.name as hub')
+    .where({ hub_id: hubId });
+}
diff --git a/api/hubs/hubs-router.js b/api/hubs/hubs-router.js
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+const express = require('express');
+
+const Hubs = require('./hubs-model.js');
+const Messages = require('../messages/messages-model.js');
+
+const router = express.Router();
+
+// middleware
+const checkHubId = async (req, res, next) => {
+  const {id} = req.params;
+
+  try {
+    const hub = await Hubs.findById(id);
+
+    if (!hub) {
+      res.status(404).json({message: `no hub ${id}, error`})
+    } else {
+      req.hub = hub; // take the request object and make a new property inside it 
+      next();
+    }
+
+  } catch(e) {
+    res.status(500).json({message: e.message})
+  }
+}
+
+const checkMessage = (req, res, next) => { // middleware to check the payload
+  if (!req.body.sender || !req.body.text) {
+    res.status(400).json("message and sender required")
+  } else {
+    next();
+  }
+}
+
+router.get('/', (req, res, next) => {
+  Hubs.find(req.query)
+    .then(hubs => {
+      res.status(200).json(hubs);
+    })
+    .catch(error => {
+      // log error to server
+      next(error)
+    });
+});
+
+router.get('/:id', checkHubId, (req, res, next) => {
+  res.status(200).json(req.hub); // this is from the new property we just made in the middleware
+});
+
+router.post('/', (req, res) => {
+  Hubs.add(req.body)
+    .then(hub => {
+      res.status(201).json(hub);
+    })
+    .catch(error => {
+      // log error to server
+      next(error)
+    });
+});
+
+router.delete('/:id', checkHubId, (req, res, next) => {
+  Hubs.remove(req.params.id)
+    .then(() => {
+      res.status(200).json({ message: 'The hub has been nuked' });
+    })
+    .catch(error => {
+      // log error to server when we try to delete the hub, after we already checked the id
+      next(error)
+    });
+});
+
+router.put('/:id', checkHubId, (req, res, next) => {
+  Hubs.update(req.params.id, req.body)
+    .then(hub => {
+      res.status(200).json(hub);
+    })
+    .catch(error => {
+      // log error to server
+      next(error)
+    });
+});
+
+router.get('/:id/messages', checkHubId, (req, res, next) => {
+  Hubs.findHubMessages(req.params.id)
+    .then(messages => {
+      res.status(200).json(messages);
+    })
+    .catch(error => {
+      // log error to server
+      next(error)
+    });
+});
+
+router.post('/:id/messages', checkHubId, checkMessage, (req, res, next) => {
+  const messageInfo = { ...req.body, hub_id: req.params.id };
+
+  Messages.add(messageInfo)
+    .then(message => {
+      res.status(210).json(message);
+    })
+    .catch(error => {
+      // log error to server
+      next(error)
+    });
+});
+
+// ERROR ENDPOINT
+// ERROR ENDPOINT
+// ERROR ENDPOINT
+router.use((err, req, res, next) => {
+  res.status(500).json({
+    message: 'Error somewhere in there my dude',
+    error: err.message
+  });
+})
+
+module.exports = router;
diff --git a/api/messages/messages-model.js b/api/messages/messages-model.js
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+++ b/api/messages/messages-model.js
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+const db = require('../../data/dbConfig.js');
+
+module.exports = {
+  find,
+  findById,
+  add,
+  remove,
+  update
+};
+
+function find(query) {
+  let { page = 1, limit = 5, sortby = 'id', sortdir = 'asc' } = query;
+  const offset = limit * (page - 1);
+
+  let rows = db('messages')
+    .orderBy(sortby, sortdir)
+    .limit(limit)
+    .offset(offset);
+
+  return rows;
+}
+
+function findById(id) {
+  return db('messages')
+    .where({ id })
+    .first();
+}
+
+async function add(message) {
+  const [id] = await db('messages').insert(message);
+
+  return findById(id);
+}
+
+function remove(id) {
+  return db('messages')
+    .where({ id })
+    .del();
+}
+
+function update(id, changes) {
+  return db('messages')
+    .where({ id })
+    .update(changes, '*');
+}
diff --git a/api/middlewares/middleware.js b/api/middlewares/middleware.js
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+++ b/api/middlewares/middleware.js
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+// make your own middleware [ client --> Middleware (call next()) --> server ] / pay close attention to where and when your middleweare is being applied
+const logQuote = (coin) => (req, res, next) => {
+  console.log('a penny saved is a penny earned');
+
+  if (coin == 'quarter') {
+    console.log('yeet');
+    next();
+  } else if (coin == 'penny' || 'nickle') {
+    console.log(`smol ${coin} bb`);
+    next();
+  } else {
+    res.json("not a valid coin");
+  }
+
+}
+
+const checkWord = (req, res, next) => {
+  if (req.query.word === "bad") {
+    res.json(`you can't proceed with the word: ${req.query.word}`);
+  } else {
+    next();
+  }
+}
+
+
+
+module.exports = {
+  logQuote,
+  checkWord
+}
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diff --git a/api/server.js b/api/server.js
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+++ b/api/server.js
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+const express = require('express'); // importing a CommonJS module
+
+const hubsRouter = require('./hubs/hubs-router.js');
+
+const morgan = require("morgan")
+const helmet = require("helmet")
+
+const { logQuote, checkWord } = require('./middlewares/middleware')
+
+const server = express();
+
+server.use(express.json());
+server.use(morgan("dev")) // global middleware, in the console, lets you know what end point, the status, and how long it took to do 
+server.use(helmet()) // global middlewear that protects header in requests
+server.use(logQuote("penny")) // your own middleware
+
+server.use('/api/hubs', hubsRouter);
+
+server.get('/', checkWord, (req, res) => {
+  res.send(`
+    <h2>Hubs API</h2>
+    <p>Welcome to the Hubs API</p>
+  `);
+});
+
+server.use('*', (req, res) => {
+  // catch all 404 errors middleware
+  res.status(404).json({ message: `${req.method} ${req.baseUrl} not found!` });
+});
+
+module.exports = server;
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diff --git a/data/dbConfig.js b/data/dbConfig.js
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+++ b/data/dbConfig.js
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+const knex = require('knex');
+
+const config = require('../knexfile.js');
+
+module.exports = knex(config.development);
diff --git a/data/hubs.db3 b/data/hubs.db3
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diff --git a/data/migrations/20190211125952_bootstrap.js b/data/migrations/20190211125952_bootstrap.js
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+++ b/data/migrations/20190211125952_bootstrap.js
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+exports.up = function (knex) {
+  return knex.schema
+    .createTable('hubs', tbl => {
+      tbl.increments();
+      tbl.string('name').notNullable().unique();
+    })
+    .createTable('messages', tbl => {
+      tbl.increments();
+      tbl.string('sender').notNullable();
+      tbl.text('text').notNullable();
+      tbl.integer('hub_id')
+        .unsigned()
+        .notNullable()
+        .references('id')
+        .inTable('hubs')
+        .onDelete('CASCADE')
+        .onUpdate('CASCADE');
+    });
+};
+
+exports.down = function (knex) {
+  return knex.schema
+    .dropTableIfExists('messages')
+    .dropTableIfExists('hubs');
+};
diff --git a/data/seeds/000-cleanup.js b/data/seeds/000-cleanup.js
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+const cleaner = require('knex-cleaner');
+
+exports.seed = function(knex) {
+  return cleaner.clean(knex, {
+    mode: 'truncate',
+    ignoreTables: ['knex_migrations', 'knex_migrations_lock'],
+  });
+};
diff --git a/data/seeds/001-hubs.js b/data/seeds/001-hubs.js
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+++ b/data/seeds/001-hubs.js
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+exports.seed = function(knex, Promise) {
+  return knex('hubs').insert([
+    { name: 'api-1' }, // 1
+    { name: 'api-2' }, // 2
+    { name: 'api-3' }, // 3
+    { name: 'api-4' }, // 4
+    { name: 'db-1' }, // 5
+    { name: 'db-2' }, // 6
+    { name: 'db-3' }, // 7
+    { name: 'db-4' }, // 8
+    { name: 'auth-1' }, // 9
+    { name: 'auth-2' }, // 10
+    { name: 'auth-3' }, // 11
+    { name: 'auth-4' }, // 12
+    { name: 'testing-1' }, // 13
+    { name: 'testing-2' }, // 14
+    { name: 'testing-3' }, // 15
+    { name: 'testing-4' }, // 16
+    { name: 'build-1' }, // 17
+    { name: 'build-2' }, // 18
+    { name: 'build-3' }, // 19
+    { name: 'build-4' }, // 20
+  ]);
+};
diff --git a/data/seeds/002-messages.js b/data/seeds/002-messages.js
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+++ b/data/seeds/002-messages.js
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+exports.seed = function (knex) {
+  return knex('messages').insert([
+    {
+      sender: 'Frodo',
+      text: 'Go back Sam, I am goin gto Mordor alone',
+      hub_id: 1,
+    },
+    {
+      sender: 'Sam',
+      text: 'Of course you are, and I am coming with you',
+      hub_id: 1,
+    },
+    {
+      sender: 'Boromir',
+      text: 'One does nto simply walk into Mordor',
+      hub_id: 1,
+    },
+    {
+      sender: 'Aragorn',
+      text: 'Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised',
+      hub_id: 2,
+    },
+    {
+      sender: 'Lady Galadriel',
+      text: 'Even the smallest person can change the course of  history',
+      hub_id: 2,
+    },
+    {
+      sender: 'Sam',
+      text: "There is some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth figting for",
+      hub_id: 2,
+    },
+    {
+      sender: 'Aragorn',
+      text: 'A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship',
+      hub_id: 2,
+    },
+    {
+      sender: 'Lord Elrond',
+      text: 'Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because the must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere',
+      hub_id: 2,
+    },
+    {
+      sender: 'Boromir',
+      text: 'It is a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt over so small a thing... such a little thing',
+      hub_id: 2,
+    },
+    {
+      sender: 'Gandalf',
+      text: 'He that breaks a thing to find out what it is, has left the path of wisdom',
+      hub_id: 2,
+    },
+    {
+      sender: 'Gandalf',
+      text: 'All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us',
+      hub_id: 2,
+    },
+    {
+      sender: 'Gandalf',
+      text: 'The burned hand teaches best. After that advice about fire goes to the heart',
+      hub_id: 2,
+    },
+    { sender: 'Gimli', text: 'Never toss a dwarf!', hub_id: 2 },
+    {
+      sender: 'Gimli',
+      text: 'Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens',
+      hub_id: 2,
+    },
+    {
+      sender: 'Arwen',
+      text: 'Your time will come. You will face the same Evil, and you will defeat it',
+      hub_id: 3,
+    },
+    {
+      sender: 'Gandalf',
+      text: 'A wizard is never late, Frodo Baggins. Nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to',
+      hub_id: 3,
+    },
+    {
+      sender: 'Sam',
+      text: "It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish",
+      hub_id: 3,
+    },
+    {
+      sender: 'Frodo',
+      text: 'I will take the Ring, though I do not know the way',
+      hub_id: 3,
+    },
+    {
+      sender: 'Lady Galadriel',
+      text: 'Seeing is both good and perilous',
+      hub_id: 3,
+    },
+    {
+      sender: 'Aragorn',
+      text: 'It is but a shadow and a thought that you love. I cannot give you what you seek',
+      hub_id: 3,
+    },
+    {
+      sender: 'Frodo',
+      text: "I don't know and I would rather not guess",
+      hub_id: 3,
+    },
+    {
+      sender: 'Bilbo Baggins',
+      text: "It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to",
+      hub_id: 3,
+    },
+  ]);
+};
diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
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+++ b/index.js
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+const server = require('./api/server.js');
+
+const port = 9000;
+
+server.listen(port, () => {
+  console.log(`\n*** Server Running on http://localhost:${port} ***\n`);
+});
diff --git a/knexfile.js b/knexfile.js
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+++ b/knexfile.js
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+module.exports = {
+  development: {
+    client: 'sqlite3',
+    connection: {
+      filename: './data/hubs.db3',
+    },
+    useNullAsDefault: true,
+    pool: {
+      afterCreate: (conn, done) => {
+        // runs after a connection is made to the sqlite engine
+        conn.run('PRAGMA foreign_keys = ON', done);
+      },
+    },
+    migrations: {
+      directory: './data/migrations',
+    },
+    seeds: {
+      directory: './data/seeds',
+    },
+  },
+};