Table of Contents

• About
• Technology
• How to run it on your computer?
• UI

About

A blog created with Node.js where users can register, login, create or delete a post, and update their details.

Technology

• HTML/CSS
• Vanilla JS
• Node.js/Express
• MySQL

How to run it on your computer?

Prerequisites

• Install XAMPP or a similar tool to be able to run MySQL.
• Install HeidiSQL, a graphical interface to manage MySQL databases or a similar tool (Optional).
• Install Node.js, which includes npm.

Setting up the database

• Open XAMPP and start the MySQL module.
• Open HeidiSQL or a similar tool and connect to the MySQL server by entering your chosen host, username, and password. In this project, the default username 'host' is used and the password is empty.
• Create a new database. I named mine "Coursework3" in this project.
• Browse to the project folder and go to the database_dump folder, and import posts.sql and users.sql into the created database to populate the database with dummy data.

Run the server

• Open a terminal or command prompt and navigate to the project folder.
• Run npm install to install project dependencies.
• Run node server.js to start the server.
• Open a web browser and go to http://localhost:8080 (or your chosen port) to see the running application.

UI

Homepage

Post creation

Posts created

Profile page

Future work

• Allow users to add a profile picture.
• Allow users to edit their past posts.
• Allow users to upvote and downvote a post.
• Allow users to direct message another user.
• Allow users to update their email or password upon providing their current password.