This application is an Employee tracker that is powered by Node.js and uses inquirer to use user input to see Department, Roles, and Employee information of a company.
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The GIF below will show functionality and appearance.
The full video showing functionality can be found here
AS A business owner
I WANT to be able to view and manage the departments, roles, and employees in my company
SO THAT I can organize and plan my businessGIVEN a command-line application that accepts user input
WHEN I start the application
THEN I am presented with the following options: view all departments, view all roles, view all employees, add a department, add a role, add an employee, and update an employee role
WHEN I choose to view all departments
THEN I am presented with a formatted table showing department names and department ids
WHEN I choose to view all roles
THEN I am presented with the job title, role id, the department that role belongs to, and the salary for that role
WHEN I choose to view all employees
THEN I am presented with a formatted table showing employee data, including employee ids, first names, last names, job titles, departments, salaries, and managers that the employees report to
WHEN I choose to add a department
THEN I am prompted to enter the name of the department and that department is added to the database
WHEN I choose to add a role
THEN I am prompted to enter the name, salary, and department for the role and that role is added to the database
WHEN I choose to add an employee
THEN I am prompted to enter the employee’s first name, last name, role, and manager, and that employee is added to the database
WHEN I choose to update an employee role
THEN I am prompted to select an employee to update and their new role and this information is updated in the databaseIn order to use this application you will need clone this project repository to your computer. Then write on your terminal the the following commands:
npm i For the required pakages.
After open up your terminal in the db folder and run the following commands to create the data base on Postgres and get the seeds ino the database:
psql -U postgres
\i schema.sql
\i seeds.sql
Finally after make the .env.EXAMPLE file into an .env and add your user and password for your Postgres login to connect to the database and use the application.
After all the pakages are installed then write the following command on your command line that you need to open in the root folder of your project
npm start or node server.js
After exiting out of the application you can use the following command to return to your terminal.
control + c
If you would like to contribute to the code or improve it you can fork the repository.