EJS blog website

A simple express web server that implement EJS as page template. Live demo is available on Railway free-tier.

Table of Contents

• General Info
• Technologies Used
• Features
• Screenshots
• Setup
• Usage
• Project Status
• Lesson Learned
• Room for Improvement
• Acknowledgements

General Information

• The webpage allow user to compose a simple blog with content.
• The homepage of the website will show the first 100 letters of blogs post.
• The post page will show the whole content of the post.
• A practical project created for study and practice

Technologies Used

• Express: ^4.16.3
• Node: ^14.17.6
• ejs: ^3.1.8
• lodash: ^4.17.21
• mongoose: ^6.6.1

Features

• Create blog post
• Delete blog post

Screenshots

• Homepage

• About page

• Contact page

• Compose post page

• Homepage (After)

• Post page

Setup

• Project environment:
  • Node.js installed.
  • MongoDB Shell installed.
• Cloud Database environment (Optional):
  • Create a mongoDB Atlas account

Usage

• On project terminal
  • install dependencies npm install
  • start the app npm app.js
• On Mongodb Shell
  • start the database server mongosh
• Or MongoDB Atlas (Optional):
  • Connect to your database via mongoose with the URI of your database (remember to change the information of username,password,clustername and password accordingly)
  • You should be able to get a customized URI from your account
  • For more detailed information and documentation, please visit mongoDB doc website mongoDB/docs

mongoose.connect("mongodb+srv://<username>:<password>@<clustername>.mongodb.net/<databasename>?w=majority");

Project Status

Project is: complete

Lesson Learned

• Implement EJS template page to simplify the web development process.
• Passing variables through express.
• Use express route parameters for useful purposes.

Room for Improvement

• Connect to cloud database.
• Hosting on other platform other than Heroku.

To do:

• Establish connection with cloud database (MongoDB Atlas).
• Hosted on Railway.

Acknowledgements

• This project was inspired by Angela Yu.
• This project was based on this course on Udemy.