Notes App

This is a simple CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) application for taking notes. It was a project during 2nd Year internal Attachment on developing sample APIs (Laikipia University). It was built using Node.js, Express, and MongoDB. For templating, EJS was used.

Features

• Create, read, update, and delete notes
• Rich text editor for notes
• API to be used on front end
• UI interactivity
• Dark Theme Toggle

  ScreenShots

  Home UI Add A Note Saved/Read A Note

Update/ Edit a Note Dark Mode

Installation

1. Clone the repository

2. git clone https://github.com/GodyRacks/Node.jsNotes-app.git

3. Navigate to app directory

   cd app

4. Install dependencies

   npm install express mongoose axios nodemon body-parser morgan ejs dotenv

5. Create a mongodb atlas cluster, free preferably then obtain password to use on your Mongo_URI, see edited ./app/config.env as an example.
6. Start the server using

   npm start

you can check out the package_json file and see how i used nodemon to automatically refresh the server any time changes are made.//console logs

Usage

1. Open your web browser and navigate to http://localhost:3000. OR when you type npm start in the terminal (VSCode) you will see http://localhost:3000. click on it it will open your application on the browser.
2. Create, read, update, or delete notes as needed

Improvements

• Predictive search for notes
• Notes encryption for added security
• Better responsive web design
• Flash messages for user feedback
• Account registration and login
• Add more authentication options
• Code improvement overall
• Contributions are highly welcomed!