psibal / express-locallibrary-tutorial

Local Library website written in NodeJS/Express; example for the MDN server-side development NodeJS module: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Server-side/Express_Nodejs.

express-locallibrary-tutorial

Tutorial "Local Library" website written in in Node/Express.

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This web application creates an online catalog for a small local library, where users can browse available books and manage their accounts.

For more information see the associated MDN tutorial home page.

Note The auth branch in this repository implements an unsupported and undocumented version of the library with User Authentication and Authorization. This may be a useful starting point for some users.

Quick Start

To get this project up and running locally on your computer:

1. Set up a Node.js development environment.

2. Once you have node setup install the project in the root of your clone of this repo:

   npm install

3. Run the tutorial server, using the appropriate command line shell for your environment:

   # Linux terminal
   DEBUG=express-locallibrary-tutorial:* npm run devstart
   
   # Windows Powershell
   $ENV:DEBUG = "express-locallibrary-tutorial:*"; npm start

4. Open a browser to http://localhost:3000/ to open the library site.

Note: The library uses a default MongoDB database hosted on MongoDB Atlas. You should use a different database for your own code experiments.