Detailed steps on how to run the application locally in Windows

• MongoDB/Nodejs Configuration

  • Download and install NodeJS and mongoDB

  • Create this directory structure C:\data\db

  • Add bin folder from MongoDB installation directory, add it to the PATH env variable .

  • Download The MongoDB Database Tools from https://www.mongodb.com/try/download/database-tools?tck=docs_databasetools and download the zip file

  • Extract the zip in C:\ drive

  • under this zip, add bin folder, to the PATH env variable

• Running MongoDB server and importing database

  • Open cmd and run the MongoDB deamon using this command:

    .\mongod.exe

  • Now we need to create the database and its collections, open cmd run the MongoDB client

    .\mongo.exe

  • From the mongo shell that appears, run the following commands one after another

    use social_network_db
    db.createCollection('users')
    db.createCollection('questions')
    db.createCollection('answers')
    db.createCollection('topics')

  Download the project into the filesystem

• Unzip it

• Now we need to import the data into the mongodb database collections

• Open a terminal & go to the downloaded project's directory & run the following commands one after another

  mongoimport --db social_network_db --collection users --drop --file ./mongodb-database/users.json --jsonArray

  mongoimport --db social_network_db --collection questions --drop --file ./mongodb-database/questions.json --jsonArray

  mongoimport --db social_network_db --collection answers --drop --file ./mongodb-database/answers.json --jsonArray

  mongoimport --db social_network_db --collection topics --drop --file ./mongodb-database/topics.json --jsonArray

• Always from the project's directory, run

  npm install

  to install npm dependencies

• ALways from the project's directory, run:

  npm run startdev

  To run the app

• go to http://locahost:3000