BlogEJS

This Project mainly utilize Node.js, Express and EJS and various Node Package Module libraries.

Issue

Render doesn't provide me a disk or file system so Image that were uploaded to it are not saved

1. Node.js and Terminal Install

• Make sure you're using the Node.js version at least 20.18.0 --> https://nodejs.org/en
• Make sure you also have Terminal environment such as Git Bash. --> https://git-scm.com/downloads
• Ensure you have Google Authentification Client ID setup in Google Cloud Project --> https://developers.google.com/identity/sign-in/web/sign-in

2. Set up NPM

• This step is to install the Node.js 3rd party libraries.
• For this Project, I used the following libraries:

1. bcrypt
2. body-parser
3. dotenv
4. ejs
5. express
6. express-session
7. multer
8. nodemon (Optional)
9. passport
10. passport-google-oauth2
11. passport-local
12. pg (PostgreSQL Database)

npm install 

# If the package didn't install the libraries
npm i bcrypt body-paser dotenv ejs express express-session multer passport passport-google-oauth2 passport-local pg
npm i nodemon # Optional

• It'll automatically install all the libraries according to the JSON.

3. Step up the an .env while and fill in the root.

• Ensure you have PostgreSQL PG-ADMIN 4 opened in your local environment
• And you can set up GOOGLE SECURITY in Google Cloud by starting a new project

GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID=your-google-client-id
GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET=your-google-client-secret
SESSION_SECRET=your-session-secret
PG_USER=your-postgres-username
PG_HOST=localhost
PG_DATABASE=mydatabase
PG_PASSWORD=your-postgres-password
PG_PORT=5432

4. Once all the following step is done, do the following in terminal

nodemon index.js

(If 'nodemon index.js doesn't work, use the following)

npx nodemon index.js