pratik-bongale / blog-with-db

Daily journal with persistence using MongoDB

Daily Journal Blog - with database

Daily journal to share your thoughts, ideas, and interesting reads.

Getting Started

• The App is currently hosted on Heroku. For a quick peek visit Daily Journal.
• To build this project locally, follow steps given below.

Prerequisites

• Node, npm
• MongoDB Atlas account(free account works)
  • Visit getting started guide for steps of setting up your free cluster in the cloud.

Installing

Clone this repository.

$ git clone https://github.com/pratik-bongale/blog-with-db.git

Change directory

$ cd blog-with-db

Install all dependencies

$ npm install

Rename ".env_sample" to ".env"

$ mv .env_sample .env

Modify ".env", replace the MongoDB connection string with your own generated in your MongoDB Atlas account.

MONGODB_CONN=mongodb+srv://username:[email protected]/todolistDB

Run app locally

$ node app.js

Learnings

• This project demonstrates how to:
  • Connect to mongoDB database using mongoose.
  • Perform Create, Read, Delete operations on mongoDB collections
  • Export functions/variables from a module
  • Import functions/variables into a module
  • Use Embedded Javasciprt(EJS) to define views
  • Render EJS views using expresJS
  • Reuse EJS views(Header/Footer) across all pages for consistency
  • Handle get and post requests from the backend nodeJs script
  • Use route(url) parameters to display different content on a page based on url

Author

• Pratik Bongale - Initial work - Daily Journal

Acknowledgments

• The App Brewary
• The Web Developer Bootcamp