sharabiania / personal-website

A template for quickly building a personal resume website and blog with nodejs and mongodb.

Description

A minimal personal resume/blog/website, with admin controls that can also be used as a template to develop other websites and REST APIs.

Technologies and tools used in this project:

• NodeJS
• MongoDB
• Pug
• ExpressJS
• Bootstrap 4

Build and Run

Project is build using NodeJS, MongoDB.

Install dependencies

• Install NodeJS.
• Install MongoDB.

Install Node packages

• npm install express
• npm install express-fileupload
• npm install express-session
• npm install mongodb
• npm install pug
• npm install passport
• npm install passport-local

Initialize and seed the database (One time only)

NOTE: at some point in the future, this part should be automatically done or the database seed code should be in a script file.

• Create a database in MongoDB called personal-website.
  • use personal-website.
• Create a collection users and add a user:
  • db.users.insertOne({username:"admin", password: "123"}).
• Create a collection content and add first page content:
  • db.content.insertOne({_id:'home', content :'enter some text...'}).
• Create a collection categories:
  • db.categories.insertOne({name:'category name', desc: 'description of the category...'}).

Run

• Start NodeJS.
• Start MongoDB.
  • On Linux: sudo service mongod start.
• node app.js
• Navigate to localhost:4000 in your browser.

Contribute

You are welcome to contribute by:

• Work on tasks here,
• Creating issues / suggestions,
• Creating Pull Request for:
  • bug fixes
  • new features
  • improvment
  • documentation
• Reviewing Pull Requests,
• Look for TODO tags in the code and complete them.