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A basic note application that uses a ReactJS frontend to capture and manage notes, an api written in ExpressJS, and MongoDB to store notes.

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Developed With

NodeJS - Javascript runtime
MongoDB - NoSQL database
Docker - Used to host MongoDB instance (Not manadatory. See other options below)
ExpressJS - A web application framework for Node.js
ReactJS - Javascript library for building user interfaces
Bootstrap v4.0.0-beta.2 - Build responsive, mobile-first projects
Webpack - Javascript module bundler

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Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

The following software is required to be installed on your system:

NodeJS

The following version of Node and Npm are required:
- Node 8.x
- Npm 3.x
Type the following commands in the terminal to verify your node and npm versions
```
node -v
npm -v
```
MongoDB

MongoDB 3.x is required

Type the following command to verify that MongoDB is running on your local machine
```
mongo -version
```
See alternative MongoDB options below

MongoDB Setup

A running instance of MongoDB is required. Alternatively use a hosted MongoDB from MongoDB Atlas or MLab

One of the 3 options below is recommended to get up and running with MongoDB:

Install and host locally
Install and host in Docker
Register for third party MongoDB hosting
- Register for and use MongoDB Atlas (Database As A Service)
- Register for and use MLab (Database As A Service)

Install and Host MongoDB Locally

Installing MongoDB is relatively straight forward. There are currently 3 platform (Windows, Linux, OSX) releases available and can be found here

For more specific installation instructions, please see the following links:

Install And Host Using Docker

Run MongoDB Using Named Volume

To run a new MongoDB container, execute the following command from the CLI:

docker run --rm --name mongo-dev -p 127.0.0.1:27017:27017 -v mongo-dev-db:/data/db -d mongo

CLI Command	Description
--rm	remove container when stopped
--name mongo-dev	give container a custom name
-p	map host port to container port
-v mongo-dev-db/data/db	map the container volume 'data/db' to a custom name 'mongo-dev-db'
-d mongo	run mongo container as a daemon in the background

Run MongoDB Using Bind Mount

cd
mkdir -p mongodb/data/db
docker run --rm --name mongo-dev -p 127.0.0.1:27017:27017 -v ~/mongodb/data/db:/data/db -d mongo

CLI Command	Description
--rm	remove container when stopped
--name mongo-dev	give container a custom name
-p	map host port to container port
-v ~/mongodb/data/db/data/db	map the container volume 'data/db' to a bind mount '~/mongodb/data/db'
-d mongo	run mongo container as a daemon in the background

Third Party Hosting

MongoDB Atlas

MongoDB Atlas is basically a database as a service and is hosted in the cloud. That means that you don't need to install or setup anything to start using MongoDB.

You can get started for free by registering here. The free tier entitles you to 512MB storage.

Please review the documentation here

MLab

MLab also provides MongoDB cloud hosting in the form of database as a service. Once again there is no installation or setup required.

To get started, signup for free account here. The free tier entitles you to 500MB storage.

Please review the documentation here

Install

Follow the following steps to get development environment running.

Clone 'noteworx-react-mongodb' repository from GitHub

git clone https://github.com/drminnaar/noteworx-react-mongodb.git

or using ssh

git clone [email protected]:drminnaar/noteworx-react-mongodb.git

Install node modules
```
cd noteworx-react-mongodb
npm install
```

Build

There are 2 build options:

Build
```
npm run build
```
Build with watch enabled
```
npm run build:watch
```

Run ESlint

Lint project using ESLint
```
npm run lint
```
Lint project using ESLint, and autofix
```
npm run lint:fix
```

Run API Server

All the API (server) code is found in the 'Server' folder.

Before running the React application, the API needs to be started.

The following command wil start server and host api at http://localhost:8000/api

npm run serve:api

Run React App

Run Dev Server

Start React usinf React dev server
```
npm run serve:dev
```

Versioning

I use SemVer for versioning. For the versions available, see the tags on this repository.

Authors

Douglas Minnaar - Initial work - drminnaar

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