Vidjot

Vidjot is a small Node/Express application for saving video ideas to user accounts using Passport authentication and MongoDB data storage.

Running Code

To run this application, clone the repository then run the commands below in the main directory. Once finished, open a up browser and navigate to localhost:5000

Running With Node

$ npm install
$ node app.js 

Running With Nodemon

Nodemon is a utility that acts as a live server and allows any changes made in a node application to restart the server and the application with the loaded changes.

$ npm install
$ nodemon

Deploying to Heroku

Add A Start Script

Add a start script to package.json so that Heroku can run npm start

"scripts": {
    "start": "node app.js"
}

Modify Port

Heroku decides what port to use, whereas when running locally we can use port 5000. Because of this the port in app.js needs to be modified to pick up the assigned port from Heroku.

const port = process.env.PORT || 5000;

mLab

Add a deployment creator using mLab and connect using a driver via the standard MongoDB URI that is provided

mongodb://<dbuser>:<dbpassword>@ds231725.mlab.com:31725/vidjot-prod