Bloggerly

A Blogging platform built with Node.js and Express.

Getting Started

These instructions will get your clone of Bloggerly up and running on your local machine for development.

Prerequisites

• Install Node.js version 8.10 or higher
• Install mongoDB version 4.0.5 or higher

Running the project locally

Restore npm packages

• cd <path to bloggerly clone>/src

• npm install

Start Bloggerly

• npm start

Update the connection string to mongodb in dev-data.js to mongodb://localhost:27017/bloggerly

Navigate to localhost:5000 in your browser. You can use the generate posts tool in the admin dashboard to populate the app with mock posts.

Running in Docker

Download and install docker and docker-compose

Build the image and start container docker-compose up --build

The src/views/ directory has been setup as a bind mount. You can edit the html views without rebuilding/restarting the container.

Once finished you can run docker-compose down to remove the running containers and network. To include volumes in the removal run docker-compose down -v

Navigate to localhost:5000 in your browser.

You can use the Generate Posts tool in the admin dashboard to populate the app with mock posts.

Dependencies

• bcryptjs
• body-parser
• connect-flash
• express
• express-fileupload
• express-handlebars
• express-session
• faker
• method-override
• moment
• mongoose
• mongoose-url-slugs
• passport
• passport-local

Authors

• Sean O'Loughlin - SeanoNET

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details