pratik-bongale / daily-journal

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

Daily Journal Blog - No 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

Installing

Clone this repository.

$ git clone https://github.com/pratik-bongale/daily-journal.git

Change directory

$ cd daily-journal

Install all dependencies

$ npm install

Run app

$ node app.js

Visit localhost (only two routes available for simplicity)

Go to https://localhost:3000/

Learnings

• This project demonstrates how to:
  • 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