Employee Tracker is a CLI content management system (CMS). The purpose of this tool is to manage a database of employees at your company. It's written in JavaScript and runs on Node.js. The inquirer and mysql2 packages are the main dependenices (see credits). This application connects to a MySQL database. When you run it you will be presented with choices that include creating, reading, updating, and deleting information from the CMS. The data is displayed in a table in the console.
Here's a preview of the application:
You must have node.js installed to run this application. I highly recommend using nvm (node version manager) to manage your node.js installation.
This application is based on node v16.18.1.
After you ensure that you have node.js installed you can simply clone this repositry:
git clone git@github.com:jakubcic/employee-tracker.git
Then in your terminal navigate to the root of the employee-tracker directory and run npm install.
Once you have everything installed, including the dependencies, you can run node index.js in your terminal within the employee-tracker directory and the application will launch and begin prompting you.
Here's a video demo
employee-tracker-demo.mp4
This application uses v8.2.5 of the inquirer package and v2.3.3 of the mysql2 package.
Within my addEmployee function I encountered a bug caused by MySQL. I need to make a nested query to get the id of the manager based on the manager name because of a MySQL 1093 error. I found the workaround on stackoverflow, though this potentially has a performance impact and that's something to consider.
I was originally using the built-in console.table to display the tables of data after the user chose one of the view options but I didn't like how it had an index column for every table. I considered that to be a waste of space in your terminal and a bad user experience. I found this neat function on stackoverflow that will display a table given an array of data, but remove the index value. I added it as a helper function inside ./helpers.
This application is covered under the MIT License.