This demo project is based on an article published at TopTal. The backend code is pulled from this GitHub repo and expanded upon by me to manage user authentication in a minimal front-end app.
- Please make sure that you have:
- node.js installed (https://nodejs.org/)
- have mongodb installed and running locally (https://www.mongodb.com/)
- Using Windows, just open the terminal at where you installed mongo and run
mongod.exe
- Using Windows, just open the terminal at where you installed mongo and run
- run npm install in your root project folder
To run the project, please use a command line the following:
- npm start
- It will run the server at port 3600.
- Refactored mongoose to a proper common service.
- Added a Dockerfile and docker-compose configuration.
If you are familiar to docker and you have docker installed on your machine and just want to run the project without issues please do:
- docker-compose build
- docker-compose up
- It will run the mongodb at port 27017 (for testing purposes only).
- It will run the server at port 3600.
I've created a 2020 version of this project using Typescript. If you might be interested on it, please check the following repository: https://github.com/makinhs/expressjs-api-tutorial