Blog Website

Project By Hitik Saini

Start your Blog today! Here you will find a node.js coded back-end and ejs coded front-end for your personal/community blog. This is a prototype for a sample Blog Website.

Prerequisite

Install latest version of nodejs & mongoDB(database) into your PC for this to work. I have explained the installation process below refer to it and when you're done. You now just need to open terminal and write these commands:

• git clone https://github.com/hitiksaini/Blog-Website.git
• navigate to where you downloaded the repository
• node app.js (this will run the whole node.js coded project and you will see the blog website on your local servers)

Installation Guide: Node.js | Express.js | MongoDB

Node.js on Windows : Download

Installation Steps

• Download the Windows installer from the Nodes.js® website
• Choose the LTS version that’s shown on the left.
• Run the installer (the .msi file you downloaded in the previous step.)
• Follow the prompts in the installer (Accept the license agreement, click the NEXT button a bunch of times and accept the default installation settings).
• Restart your computer. You won’t be able to run Node.js® until you restart your computer.
• Confirm that Node has been installed successfully on your computer by opening a Hyper terminal and typing in the commands

node --version

You should see the version of node you just installed.

Node.js on Mac : Download

Installation Steps

• Download the Mac installer from the Nodes.js® website.
• Choose the LTS version that’s shown on the left.
• Run the installer (double-click on the .pkg file you downloaded in the previous step.)
• NOTE: If you are running macOS Catalina 10.15, you might get a warning pop up
• To solve this issue, just right click (hold down the control key on the keyboard and click) on the .pkg file and select "Open With" and then select "Installer (default)".
• Follow the prompts in the installer (Accept the license agreement, click the NEXT button a bunch of times and accept the default installation settings).
• Confirm that node has been installed successfully by opening a Hyper terminal and entering the command

node --version

You should see the version of node you have just installed.

Express is a framework for Node.js it can be used by using npm package.

npm install express

MongoDB Installation

Download the msi file based on your platform(windows, mac, linux etc) Download

Install

• Select the latest version and click download.
• After downloding the file double click it, and install it in complete mode.
• Note the data directory I recommend you not to change and keep it default.
• Uncheck Install mongodb compass, we don't need it for now.
• Click Install now.

Configure

After successfully installing the latest version you need to configure the database to use it.

• Navigate to your C:// drive or /home in linux
• Create a folder and name it "data" (make sure to name it exactly)
• Now make another folder inside this folder named "db" (make sure to name it exactly) The path should now appear like this:

C:\data\db

Now set alias to your database based on your database directory in your C drive.

• cd ~
• touch .bash_profile
• now open this bash file and set alias (mongo = "just paste the directory")

Here is the official document which guide you step by step for installing mongoDB locally. Refer to this: https://docs.mongodb.com/guides/server/install/

You can always contact for any help😉