Simple Server

A simple server created specifically for the simple-blog project.

This server was built with the Node.js framework Express.js and the database management system MySQL.

To run it locally on your machine

Prerequisites

You need to have npm installed.

To install then all needed dependencies inside your local project, simply run:

npm install

Choosing the configuration

Inside the simple-server/config/config.js file, different configurations for different environments (i.e. development, production, test) can be defined. The scripts that start the server (each with a specific environment) are defined in simple-server/package.json:

...

"scripts": {
    "start": "NODE_ENV=development node ./app",
    "test": "NODE_ENV=test node ./app"
},

...

The database

Adapt the database properties in the simple-server/config/config.js file to match your MySQL database for your desired environment.

To obtain then a clean initial database setup without any entries, import the simple-server/database/init.sql file into your database.

Or, to obtain an initial state already containing some test data, import the simple-server/database/init_with_test_data.sql file into your database.

The e-mail messaging

To define the receiver of incoming contact form requests and to define which service should be responsible for the transport of these mails, edit the respective mailing properties inside the simple-server/config/config.js file for your desired environment.

Running the server locally in development mode

To run the server then in development mode locally on your machine, just execute the following command in the root directory of your local project:

npm start