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A guestBook built on Node.js and Express.js and Bootstrap

Express Books

Express Books is Web Application to save a list of your favorite books. All data are store in a Json file.

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Express Books

Installation

git clone https://github.com/FaztTech/books-express
npm install
npm run build
npm start

Environment Variables

  • PORT, this is the http port of the server. by default is 5000.
  • APPID - (optional), this is an unique ID for the application to identify in a load balancer

Also you can create a .env file with the environment variables mentioned above.

Docker

docker build -t express-books .
docker run -p 80:5000 express-books .

then visit: http://localhost

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Considerations

  • Make sure nodemon ignores the file src/books.json.

Reference

  • https://babeljs.io/docs/en/babel-plugin-transform-runtime

Todo

  • [ ] Add user authentication
  • [ ] Allow to download the json data
  • [ ] Publish a docker container image on dockerhub
  • [x] Change to dark theme