This repository is a demo fullstack application that uses mongodb, express, and an independent frontend for a full stack application.

To get started using this repo, you will an active, local installation of mongodb and to use both the frontend and backend, I would suggest opening 2 terminals, one for the nodejs server and one to serve up the frontend application.

You will first want to have you mongodb server running.

1. Then, in your terminal, cd into the api/ directory of this repository
2. Once in api/ directory, you will want to install the dependencies.
3. Once dependencies are installed, you can run your api application, like the third command below:

$ cd api/
$ npm install
$ npm run dev

^^ The last command will run the node app using nodemon so you do not have to restart the server every time you are adding and saving new code.

The frontend of this application lives in the web/ folder of this repository.

This frontend, currently, is just vanilla javascript with no dependencies except for the web browser apis that are available to it, like fetch

You will want to run this folder like it is being served up by a server so that you can perform the api calls correctly. To do so, I would recommend using a tool/npm module called serve that will allow you to run the web folder like it would live on the web.

To install the serve utility, simply globally install the module: npm install serve -g

Now you can just use the command serve in any directory and will treat it like a directory on the web, so having an index.html will automatically be displayed when you go to the site.

$ cd web/
$ serve