Blog app backend - Node.js w/ Express

A simple Node.js server for a blog app.

Starting the server

From the main directory run the following command: npm start If you're using yarn, you can run the command: yarn start

Other available scripts

If you're using yarn, for the following scripts you can replace the npm run portion with yarn.

npm run debug

Allows you to start the server with debugging messages.

npm run migrate

Migrates the tables for the generated models into the database defined in src/config/index.js under the db field.

npm run undo-migrate

Drops the tables for the models in the database defined in src/config/index.js under the db field.

npm run seed

Adds seed data into the database defined in src/config/index.js under the db field.

Accompanying Frontend

The following repo contains a React-based Frontend that uses this backend for demonstration purposes.

Defaults

If an environment file (.env) is not found, the following default values are used.

Server

• env: development
• port: 8000
• secret: secret

Database

• host: 127.0.0.1
• port: 8889
• username: root
• password: root
• database: blog_app
• dialect: mysql