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A UFO Sighting Blog that allows users to view and research sightings, vote for sightings, and make comments.

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Local Installation (only if executing on local server/pc)

To install locally, clone this repository to your local environment. This is a node application, so node must be installed. MySQL must also be installed locally. For mySQL installation see https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/installing.html. If you need to install node, check out this link https://nodejs.org/en/download/. Once mySQL and node (and npm) are installed, attach to the repository root directory and update npm dependencies with the following commands:

  • npm install bcrypt dotenv
  • npm express express-handlebars express-session handlebars
  • npm mysql2 nodemon sequelize connect-session-sequelize

Additionally you must execute the a database initialization script. Attach to the root directory of the repository and connect to mySQL, then type the source command...

mysql> source db/schema.sql

THIS SQL SCRIPT SHOULD ONLY BE RUN ONCE TO INITIALIZE THE MYSQL DATABASE/SCHEMA AS A FIRST-TIME SETUP.

Usage for deployed Installation

To execute the application using the Heroku deployed application, click the following link:

https://msdale-whats-out-there.herokuapp.com/

The application interface should appear as "What's out there?" in your browser.

Usage for local Installation

To execute the application locally, you have 3 command-line options. From the root directory of the repository clone, type one of the following:

  1. npm run start (starts the server and connects to the database)
  2. npm run startover (starts the server and synchronizes database with sequelize models...all data lost)
  3. npm run startseed (starts the server and synchronizes database with sequelize models...all data replaced)

The application interface will be available in your browser as:

http://localhost:3001

The application must remain running in the terminal until your done with it, at which time you can terminate it with a CTRL-C keystroke.

Questions

Any questions, please contact Mark Dale.

My email address is: msdaledad@gmail.com My github profile is https://github.com/msdale

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