Build Successful no errors but no output Chapter 3 and 4 mern-skeleton

[ChristianB2113]

I believe I followed everything in the code examples to a T, but unfortunately I cannot get the browser to display anything

[Cirych]

Hi Christian!

Please check:

• This repo is cloned with success and you're inside mern-skeleton folder
• MongoDB is running on your system
• npm install completed with success
• npm run development executed and shows no errors
• localhost:3000 is the URL in your browser

[ProgrammerE]

I'm glad I found this. Thanks for the list @Cirych. If anybody cares: the book just brushes past deploying the app with "first, have the server running." For a beginner, that's a huge step. It sent me on a googling spree. The book uses yarn and the commands at the beginning of the chapter to install babel and webpack didn't work for me... so I had to understand that npm exists and comes with Node.js, had to install webpack (npm install --save-dev webpack) and webpack-cli (npm install --save-dev webpack-cli).
Then, I was able to follow the steps above and it worked.
(not sure comments like this fit here, wanted to put my experience on record)

[IslamYusuf]

I believe I followed everything in the code examples to a T, but unfortunately I cannot get the browser to display anything

I also have the same problem. Webpack bundles everything with no errors but nothing is showing on the browser

[ProgrammerE]

I feel you, man. It's hard do diagnose because there are so many moving parts:

• did you install mongodb?
• did you install mongoshell?
• you have to create a database named "mernproject" by using the command "use mernproject" in mongoshell
• by using the commands "node -v" and "npm -v" check your versions of node and npm and update the entries in package.json
• say a prayer