This is an exercise in Node.js, Express.js, MongoDB, and Mongoose. It's a simple blogging web application where one can add new blog posts, view them in their own dedicated route, and delete them. The posts are stored in a local MongoDB database. EJS templating is used for the HTML pages, Bootstrap v4.3 is also used, along with some custom CSS styling.
It's basically a backend database upgrade of this application.
It was created by following along the "The Complete 2019 Web Development Bootcamp" Udemy course, so massive credits and thank yous go there!
In order to run this application locally you'll need to have Node.js installed in your system, as well as MongoDB.
Once you clone or download the repository files to your desired location, open a command-line terminal, navigate into the app top-level directory, and install the required package dependencies.
$ cd simple-blog-website # or your chosen other directory name
$ npm install # install package dependenciesThen open two command-line terminals, one to run the mongod process and the other to run mongod (so that you can verify the post additions - see below):
# CLI tab 1
$ mongod
# CLI tab 2
$ mongoFinally, start the app by running the 'app.js' file:
$ node app.js # or 'nodemon app.js', etcand type "http://localhost:3000" in your browser's address to see the application running.
Once you've added some posts to the blog (and thus the database), they can be verified by going to the mongo CLI tab:
> show dbs # there should be a 'blogDB' present
> use blogDB
> show collections # there should be a 'posts' collection
> db.posts.find() # show all post documents in the 'posts' collection
> cls # clears the screen
> exit # exits the mongo sessionDon't forget to also terminate the 'mongod' process via Ctrl+C before closing that tab!
Random funny short:
- "Debugging: being the detective in a crime movie where you're also the murderer".