Install

npm install

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Purpose

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Things to add

• Create a .env file in config folder and add the following as key = value
  • PORT = 2121 (can be any port example: 3000)
  • DB_STRING = your database URI
  • CLOUD_NAME = your cloudinary cloud name
  • API_KEY = your cloudinary api key
  • API_SECRET = your cloudinary api secret

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Run

npm start

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Tech Stack:

• Node.js
• express
• express-session (sessions, cookies)
• express-flash (error handling)
• EJS (server-side templating)
• Bootstrap
• flash
• mongoDB
  • mongoose
  • connect-mongo (store sessions)
• passport (auth)
• dotenv
• method-override (allows put/delete requests to be made from templates) - alternative to adding frontend JS
• morgan (logging)
• bcrypt
• validator

Dev dependencies:

• nodemon