NodeSchool

It is a Server Side Rendered Website developed in Node.js with MongoDB as a database. The Application is structured following MVC pattern. I developed this Application to practice Node, Express.js, and MongoDB. In this Application the main focus was on backend

📼 Demo

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Test this Application out by going to the link: http://nodeschool0.herokuapp.com/

OR

Check out this Video

🧰 Technologies Used

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• HTML, CSS, JS
• BootStrap
• Handlebars
• Node.js with Express.js
• MongoDB

Modules Covered

  {
    "bcrypt": "^5.0.1", // For hashing the password before saving to DB
    "connect-mongodb-session": "^2.4.1", // For using MongoDB as a store to save session data
    "dotenv": "^10.0.0", // For using environmental variables from a .env file using process.env
    "express": "^4.17.1", // For Setting up the server
    "express-fileupload": "^1.2.1", // For saving images that users uploaded while filling out the application
    "express-handlebars": "^5.3.2", // For using Handlebars with Express.js
    "express-session": "^1.17.2", // For mantaining sessions and storing session's data
    "mongodb": "^4.0.0", // MongoDB Node.js Driver for connecting, sending queries and retreiving result.
    "nodemailer": "^6.6.3" // For sending Email with verification Code to the Email Address of the user
  }

🧑‍💻 Devlopment Setup

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To run this website locally

1. Clone this repository or simply download code ZIP folder. To clone this repo use the following command.
   
   

       https://github.com/Aizaz-Ahmad/NodeSchool.git

2. npm install to install all required Node Modules
3. Inside your MongoDB Atlas Cluster, Create a new Database with the name of 'node_school'. After this import the data into the Collections by using JSON files inside data folder.
4. For using Emailing Functioanlity replace your Gmail and Password with Placeholder values inside MailUtility.js!
5. Replace your MongoDB URI with placeholder inside .env file.
6. node index.js to run the Server

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