Expressive-Express

Getting started with Express JS by following the Express.js & Node.js Course for Beginners Crash Course of FreeCodeCamp.org

• Implementation of CRUD design pattern
• Pug as template engine
• PostgreSql as database
• Sequelize for NodeJS as ORM
• Ajax calls for CRUD operations
• Making re-usable layout files in pug
• Styling the application using Bootstrap 4.3
• Local auth strategy for login and signup using passport js
• Form input validation and form re-render with error messages using validator and lodash
• Implmentation of access control using a middleware in ExpressJS
• User admin based permission to access content

Setup Guide

• Install Node >= v10.0
• Install PostgresSQL
• create new Role and database in PgAdmin
• Update config/config.json with new database name, username and password
• Run npm install command from project root folder to install dependencies
• Run sequelize db:migrate to create db tables
• Run npm start to run the project on localhost:3000

Followed Development Steps

• Create Project using Express generator npx express-generator then express --view=pug myapp
• install Sequelize using npm install sequelize --save and npm install pg --save
• install sequelize cli globally using npm install sequelize-cli -g