cgali / lab-express-basic-site

Express basic website

Introduction

Pick a person that you admire and build a website that shares some basic information about them. They can be a writer, a musician, a celebrity, or someone you know personally.

You should use express to create your app, build the routing logic with the built-in app routing methods, and serve static content for every request.

Requirements

• Fork this repo
• Clone this repo

Submission

• Upon completion, run the following commands:

  git add .
  git commit -m "Solved Lab"
  git push origin master

• Create Pull Request so your TAs can check up your work.

Instructions

Your Website should have (at least) 3 pages:

1. A Home page, that welcomes the visitor and links to the other pages on the website.
2. An About page, that shares some basic information about the person.
3. A Works page, where you showcase some of the work of the person you chose.
4. Bonus: A Photo Gallery page, displaying some pictures of the person/their work.

You should go through the following steps:

1. Run npm init -y to create a package.json file.
2. Run npm install express to install the Express package.
3. Create a views/ directory that will hold your .html files.
4. Create a public/ directory that will hold other static files, such as your CSS stylesheets, scripts and images.
5. Build your Express app in app.js.
6. Polish your HTML, stylesheets and scripts.

Happy coding! 💙