An Express.js/MongoDB server for a hypothetical website for logging scuba dives.
It is essentially like the existing ScubaEarth. I had an idea to build a newer version of it because, although I haven't used it for years now (maybe it's improved), I always found ScubaEarth to be buggy/unreliable, and so I thought it would be a fun project to try and make a newer version of it - albeit a rather basic one; this is just a personal project after all.
- NodeJS
- NPM
- MongoDB
- Redis
From the root folder, type npm i to install the necessary dependencies.
Add a .env file to the config folder, with the following constants:
MONGODB_URL: The URL of your MongoDB database.JWT_KEY: The secret key that your JSON Web Tokens will be signed with.SERVER_PORT: The port that the server should listen on.REDIS_HOST: The host of your Redis server.REDIS_PORT: The port that your Redis server is listening on.
Then, you can run the program by typing:
npm start
You can also run the unit tests by adding a .test.env file to the config folder with the same parameters, and then typing:
npm test
I got a lot of help from this tutorial. I was already familiar with how to build an Express.js API, but this tutorial was useful in showing how to integrate such an API with MongoDB and how to implement authentication.