Board Game Inventory

This is a simple Inventory website built using NodeJS, the Express framework, and MongoDB

Table of Contents

• Overview
  • The challenge
  • Screenshot
  • Links
• My process
  • Built with
  • What I learned
  • Continued development
  • Useful resources
• Author

Overview

The challenge

Create a inventory site for board games. The inventory is tracked in a MongoDB database hosted on MongoDB Atlas. The user should be able to take CRUD operations on all entries in the database.

Screenshot

Links

• Live Site

My process

Built with

• NodeJS
• Express
• PUG
• MongoDB
• Mongoose

What I learned

I learned how to initialize an Express app, set up routes, handle user submitted data, and interact with a database.

The app is broken down into 4 major components.

• Models: define what a MongoDB collection looks like. Lives as an object within the code that can be used to define new entries or to query existing entries in the database
• Router: this handles requests from the user by parsing the url and the associated method. Based on the request, the router responds with the appropriate actions
• Controllers: these are called by the router and handle the logic of the user's request. This varies from simply rendering a page to creating a new entry opbject and saving it to the database
• View: using the PUG templating language, HTML pages are rendered with the appropriate data requested by the user

Continued development

I would like to add an upload functionality so that users can upload photos to the database rather than link to an external source. I would also like to add some sort of verification system to ensure that items cannot be deleted without authorization.

Useful resources

• MDN Guide - This was a very useful guide and was heavily refernced for my project. It goes through the process of setting up an Express application, adding relevant dependancies, and deploying to a cloud provider
• Express Validator Docs - Helpful for understanding the variouse ways user submitted data could be formatted and sanitized before processing
• Express Async Handler - A useful package that reduces the boilerplate code needed to handle errors in async functions
• MongoDB University - Lots of good information about interacting with a MongoDB database

Author

• Website - Github
• LinkedIn - [Alex Singh]https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-singh-748000254/)