Overview

This is a yet another implementation of a markdown blog engine based on Web Dev Simplified tutorial and customised (try to find my own NodeJS style...) by me.

The project's features:

• its frontend made with Bootstrap and EJS templates;
• stores data in MongoDB via mongoose library;
• runs ESLint before the tests;
• it has the tests with power of Jest and supertest (for API checks);
• uses nodemon for automaticaly restarting app during the development;
• it uses Docker and docker-compose tools for distribution, local launch and testing.

Launch

Docker compose

To run the project with a docker-compose tool, just type the following in a terminal:

$> docker-compose up --detach
Creating mongodb ... done
Creating markdown-blog ... done

To stop the project:

$> docker-compose stop
Stopping markdown-blog ... done
Stopping mongodb       ... done

Developer mode

To run the project in develop mode, start a MongoDB database, for example via a Docker:

$> docker run -p 27017:27017 mongo:4.2.3
...

Then, start the project itself:

$> npm run start:dev

> markdown-blog@1.0.0 start-dev /markdown-blog
> nodemon main.js

[nodemon] 2.0.2
[nodemon] to restart at any time, enter `rs`
[nodemon] watching dir(s): *.*
[nodemon] watching extensions: js,mjs,json
[nodemon] starting `node main.js`
...

Open localhost:5000 in your web browser and see something like the screenshots below.

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