Tech-Blog

A CMS style blog where developers can publish and comment on other posts using the MVC paradigm and deployed using Heroku.

Link to GitHub Repository

Link to Heroku Deployed Application

Table Of Contents

• Description
• Installation
• Gallery
• License
• Questions

Description

This app uses the Model (Data), Controller (Actions), View (Render) model to successfully run the Application. The application uses Handlebars.js as the templating language and Sequelize as the Object-Relational Mapping to handle the information using Javascript. The app uses Express-Session to create User Authentication and is deployed using Heroku.

Project was created using the MVC Paradigm consisting of:

• Sequelize
• Express
• Express Handlebars
• MySQL
• Javascript
• Node.js
• Nodemon
• dotenv
• bcrypt

Installation

• To use the Application First Install MySQL and Node.js

• Install Your Package using:

npm init --y

• Install Dependencies using:

npm i mysql express express-session express-handlebars sequelize connect-session-sequelize dotenv bcrypt

• Install your Database in the WorkBench using the Schema provided in the /db. and create/use 'tech_blog'.

• Seed your Application with the given data using:

npm run seed

• Now you are ready to run the Application using:

node server.js

• Create an envelope file named .env inputting your Database Information in the following style: DB_NAME DB_USER DB_PASSWORD

• When the Application has been launched successfully, open the Browser to navigate to your localhost to view the site.

Gallery

• Sign-up and Login can be accessed from the same page, sign-up required.
• Dashboard Overview showing Posts
• Example Comment and Post Field

License

Questions

Please contact WitnessMyHands via GitHub with any questions or concerns.

• https://github.com/WitnessMyHands