Tech Blog

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Table of Contents

• User Story
• Description
• Installation
• Usage
• License
• Contributing
• Tests
• Questions

User Story:

AS A developer who writes about tech

I WANT a CMS-style blog site

SO THAT I can publish articles, blog posts, and my thoughts and opinions

Description:

This is a tech blog created in the UW Coding Bootcamp. On the front-end, the app can be accessed at Heroku. On the back-end, this is a node command line application that utilizes sequilize, dotenv, mysql2, express, handlebars, and bcrypt.

Installation:

• Download it through Github
• Ensure express is installed
• Ensure express-handlebars is installed
• Ensure express-session is installed
• Ensure mysql2 is installed
• Ensure sequelize is installed
• Ensure connect-session-sequelize is installed
• Ensure dotenv is installed
• Ensure bcrypt is installed
• To connect to the database, once files are downloaded to you computer, you will need to use a .env file to input your password and username for your mysql.

Usage:

Webpage: https://ancient-citadel-20743.herokuapp.com/

Back-end after cloning or downloading repo files:

• Open terminal and navigate to tech_blog folder
• Type npm init -y into terminal to create a new .json file
• Type npm i into terminal
• Type npm i express into terminal
• Type npm i express-handlebars into terminal
• Type npm i express-session into terminal
• Type npm i mysql2 into terminal
• Type npm i sequelize into terminal
• Type npm i dotenv into terminal
• Type npm i bcrypt into terminal
• Type npm i connect-session-sequelize into terminal
• Navigate to the db folder
• Type mysql -u root -p into terminal
• Enter your password into terminal
• Type source schema.sql into terminal
• Type quit into terminal
• Navigate back to the tech_blog in terminal
• Type node seeds/index.js so the seeds will populate the database
• Type npm start into the terminal
• You will see the Now Listening indication and can access on your localhost

Screenshots:

Homepage

Login and Sign Up Page

Dashboard Once Logged In

Adding a Post

New Post Shows up on your Dashboard

Adding a Comment to a Post from Another User

User's Comment Added

New Post Shows up on Homepage

License:

MIT

Contributing:

Contributions are welcome through forking my repository.

Tests:

None

Questions:

• Github: andreahergert
• Email: [email protected]