A simple small blog application built using Node / Express / MongoDB

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• Express - Minimalist web framework for node.js
• Dotenv - Module that loads environment variables from .env
• Morgan - HTTP request logger
• Pug - Templating engine for Node.js
• Mongoose - MongoDB ODM
• Mongoose-unique-validator - Pre-save validation for unique fields within a Mongoose schema
• Slug - Slugifies strings
• Express-validator - Express middleware for validator
• Method-override - Module that allows me to use PUT and DELETE methods from client side
• Express-session - Session middleware
• Cookie-parser - Parses cookie headers
• Express-flash - Flash messages middleware
• Express-autosanitizer - data sanitization
• Bcryptjs - library for hashing passwords
• Passport - authentication middleware for node.js
• Passport-local - passport strategy for authentication using username and password
• PM2 - production process manager with load balancer
• Multer - node.js middleware for handling multipart/form-data
• Multer-S3 - multer storage engine for AWS S3
• AWS-SDK - official AWS SDK
• Mongoose-data-seed - seed mongodb database using mongoose models
• Faker - package for generating fake data
• @sendgrid/mail - service that is a part of sendgrid that is dedicated for sending mail only using Sendgrid API

Development:

• Nodemon - Development server that automatically restarts when file changes in the directory are detected
• Prettier - Opinionated code formatter
• Eslint - Javascript linter
• eslint-config-airbnb - Airbnb style guide for eslint

1. Clone the repo from git:

   git clone https://github.com/habiiev/wordify

2. cd to the folder you cloned the repo in (by default wordify):

   cd wordify

3. Install the dependencies:

   yarn install or npm install

4. Fill in the .env file

5. Seed the database:

   yarn seed or npm run seed

6. Start the development server:

   yarn start:dev or npm run start:dev

7. Open http://localhost:5500 in browser

Copyright 2019 © Oleksii Habiiev