VictorLi5611 / Shopify-Backend-Challenge

This project is for Shopify Backend Developer Internship Challenge. I did this challenge for fun and to practice nodeJS, Express and mongodb.

Shopify Backend Challege

By Victor Li This project is for Shopify Backend Developer Intership Challenge. I did this challenge for fun and to practice nodeJS, Express and mongodb. Below I will tell how to run this web application.

Setting up the Application

Set up mongodb

• Please download mongodb and mongodb compass
• In the cmd run the command mongod --dbpath=
• In mongodb compass activate the server and make sure it is running on localhost:27017

Set up node.js and express

• Please download node.js
• Once you are in the same directory as the app, run npm install to install the modules
• Then run node ./databaseInit.js to add items to the database
• Then run npm start
• Then go to http://localhost:3000/

How to stop running the applicaiton

• hit ctrl+c in the terminal to terminate the server

Modules and Technology used

• Mongodb
• Express
• Nodejs
• Pug