PostCamp

A web application where user can post, edit, delete item and comment and other user can comment on the item.

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Technologies

• Node.JS
• Express.JS
• Bootstrap
• Passport
• Heroku

Installation

1. Clone the project to your local directory

git clone https://github.com/bellom/postApp

2. Run sudo apt install nodejs

3. Run sudo apt install npm -g

4. Run cd postApp

5. Run npm install

6. Run npm start

PostApp Features

##Initial Setup

• Add Landing Page
• Add Item Page that lists all items

Each Item has:

• Name
• Image

##Layout and Basic Styling

• Create our header and footer partials
• Add in Bootstrap

##Creating New Item

• Setup new item POST route
• Add in body-parser
• Setup route to show form
• Add basic unstyled form

##Style the item page

• Add a better header/title
• Make items display in a grid

##Style the Navbar and Form

• Add a navbar to all templates
• Style the new item form

##Add Mongoose

• Install and configure Mongoose
• Setup item model
• Use item model inside of our routes

##Show Page

• Review the RESTful routes we've seen so far
• Add description to our campground model
• Show db.collection.drop()
• Add a show route/template

##Refactor Mongoose Code

• Create a models directory
• Use module.exports
• Require everything correctly!

##Add Seeds File

• Add a seeds.js file
• Run the seeds file every time the server starts

##Add the Comment model!

• Make our errors go away!
• Display comments on campground show page

##Comment New/Create

• Discuss nested routes
• Add the comment new and create routes
• Add the new comment form

##Style Show Page

• Add sidebar to show page
• Display comments nicely

##Finish Styling Show Page

• Add public directory
• Add custom stylesheet

##Auth Pt. 1 - Add User Model

• Install all packages needed for auth
• Define User model

##Auth Pt. 2 - Register

• Configure Passport
• Add register routes
• Add register template

##Auth Pt. 3 - Login

• Add login routes
• Add login template

##Auth Pt. 4 - Logout/Navbar

• Add logout route
• Prevent user from adding a comment if not signed in
• Add links to navbar

##Auth Pt. 5 - Show/Hide Links

• Show/hide auth links in navbar

##Refactor The Routes

• Use Express router to reoragnize all routes

##Users + Comments

• Associate users and comments
• Save author's name to a comment automatically

##Users

• Prevent an unauthenticated user from creating a campground
• Save username+id to newly created campground

Contributor

• Oluwaseun Bello