Investigate Using Stitch as an endpoint

[paul-tqh-nguyen]

This tutorial may be particularly helpful in this effort: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBEzGFpAnhY

Most people are recommending using a MERN stack to access our back end.

If we can do it more easily via Stitch, I don't see why we don't just do that?

Let's investigate.

[paul-tqh-nguyen]

It looks like it's trivially doable with this snippet of code:

exports = function(payload, response) {
    const mongodb = context.services.get("mongodb-atlas");
    const db = mongodb.db("arxivRecentPapers");
    const collection = db.collection("recentPapers");
    const all_documents = collection.find({}).toArray();
    return  all_documents;
};

[paul-tqh-nguyen]

We've gotten that code up on our cluster.

Remaining Tasks:

• [x] Let's update the README to say that we're using Stitch.
• [x] Let's have the README point to a wiki page about our Stitch info.

[paul-tqh-nguyen]

We now have a wiki page for our implementation details wrt Stitch.

https://github.com/paul-tqh-nguyen/arxiv_as_a_newspaper/wiki/Notes-Regarding-Stitch

[paul-tqh-nguyen]

Progress Patch: https://github.com/paul-tqh-nguyen/arxiv_as_a_newspaper/commit/b23f0063b551a36a7ba26d6237f0b55bc31eb42f

This patch updates our README to accomplish the two previously stated goals WRT the README.