YelpCamp Development Process

A full-stack Node.js project from my web dev course with RESTful routing

Initial Setup

• Add Landing Page
• Add Campgrounds Page that lists all campgrounds

Each Campground has:

• Name
• Image

Layout and Basic Styling

• Create header and footer partials
• Add in Bootstrap

Creating New Campgrounds

• Setup new campground POST route
• Add in body-parser
• Setup route to show form
• Add basic unstyled form

Style the campgrounds page

• Add a better header/title
• Make campgrounds display in a grid

Style the Navbar and Form

• Add a navbar to all templates
• Style the new campground form

Add Mongoose

• Install and configure Mongoose
• Setup campground model
• Use campground model inside of routes

Show Page

• Review the RESTful routes we've seen so far
• Add description to the campground model
• Show db.collection.drop()
• Add a show route/template

Refactor Mongoose Code

• Create a models directory
• Use module.exports
• Require everything correctly!

Add Seeds File

• Add a seeds.js file
• Run the seeds file every time the server starts

Add the Comment model!

• Make comment errors go away!
• Display comments on campground show page

Comment New/Create

• Discuss nested routes
• Add the comment new and create routes
• Add the new comment form

Style Show Page

• Add sidebar to show page
• Display comments nicely

Finish Styling Show Page

• Add public directory
• Add custom stylesheet

Authentication Pt. 1 - Add User Model

• Install all packages needed for auth
• Define User model

Authentication Pt. 2 - Register

• Configure Passport
• Add register routes
• Add register template

Authentication Pt. 3 - Login

• Add login routes
• Add login template

Authentication Pt. 4 - Logout/Navbar

• Add logout route
• Prevent user from adding a comment if not signed in
• Add links to navbar

Authentication Pt. 5 - Show/Hide Links

• Show/hide auth links in navbar

Refactor The Routes

• Use Express router to reoragnize all routes

Users + Comments

• Associate users and comments
• Save author's name to a comment automatically

Users + Campgrounds

• Prevent an unauthenticated user from creating a campground
• Save username+id to newly created campground

Editing Campgrounds

• Add Method-Override
• Add Edit Route for Campgrounds
• Add Link to Edit Page
• Add Update Route

Deleting Campgrounds

• Add Destroy Route
• Add Delete button

Authorization Part 1: Campgrounds

• User can only edit his/her campgrounds
• User can only delete his/her campgrounds
• Hide/Show edit and delete buttons

Editing Comments

• Add Edit route for comments
• Add Edit button
• Add Update route

Campground Edit Route: /campgrounds/:id/edit Comment Edit Route: /campgrounds/:id/comments/:comment_id/edit

Deleting Comments

• Add Destroy route
• Add Delete button

Campground Destroy Route: /campgrounds/:id Comment Destroy Route: /campgrounds/:id/comments/:comment_id

Authorization Part 2: Comments

• User can only edit his/her comments
• User can only delete his/her comments
• Hide/Show edit and delete buttons
• Refactor Middleware to a single file

Adding in Flash!

• Demo working version
• Install and configure connect-flash
• Add bootstrap alerts to header

Adding dynamic price tag

• Show user-defined price
• Edit new or old price
• Change model for campground