This is the wonderful work app backend.

It uses Express.js to create a REST API that handles our business logic and interacts with a MongoDB database.

Setup Local Database Server for Windows

• Install MongoDB Community server
  • Install .msi or .zip based on your convenience
  • If installed .msi run the installation file from cmd terminal as Administrator
  • In 'Service Configuration', uncheck 'Install MongoD as a service' if you want to run the local development server manually (I prefer this for development/testing phase)
  • Install Mongo Compass if you prefer a GUI to manage databases and connection strings for them
  • After installation, go to default installation directory (C:\Program Files), find MongoDB
  • Keep opening the nested folders till you find bin
  • Copy the path, open the folder in the terminal as Administrator

    C:\Windows\System32>cd C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\7.0\bin
    

  • Run the Database Server file (mongod) with paths defined for databases ( dbpath ) and logs ( logpath ) (I prefer a different directoy, 'D:/')

    C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\7.0\bin>mongod --dbpath D:\MongoDB\Server\7.0\data\db --logpath D:\MongoDB\Server\7.0\logs\mongod.log
    

  • WIP : ways to automate the server execution - bash script ?