instructions.md

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Server up instruction

1. Download this repository.

2. If your mongodb server does not launches automatically use the following command-

    {{path_to_mongodb}}/mongodb/bin/mongod --dbpath=/home/{{user_name}}/mongodb-data     
   

3. Navigate to the folder ‘./sustcselife’ using cmd

4. Run the command

    nodemon src/app.js -e hbs,js,css
   

5. The server will be up and running in your port 3005.

6. Access the website from your browser using the address : localhost:3005

user_name = Your username on your Linux Machine.
-dbpath parameter takes the path of the ‘mongodb-data’ file. You can change it accordingly.

We used the following languages/Framework/database in our project:

Backend - Node.js+Express.js+Cookie-Parser
Frontend - HTML+CSS+Bootstrap+Handlebars+Ajax
Database - MongoDB+Mongoose

Versions:

MongoDB = db version v3.6.8
Nodejs = v10.19.0
NPM = 6.14.4