Cannot read property 'replace' of undefined

[mtshikomba]

Not sure what is causing the error below but whenever I do $ npm run dev OR $ npm run start it pops up and I can't do anything else. I am using Ubuntu 16.04.

(base) tangos@ubuntu:~/votenamibia$ npm run dev

vote@1.0.0 dev nodemon server.js

[nodemon] 2.0.6 [nodemon] to restart at any time, enter rs [nodemon] watching path(s): . [nodemon] watching extensions: js,mjs,json [nodemon] starting node server.js UNCAUGHT EXCEPTION! Shutting down... TypeError Cannot read property 'replace' of undefined [nodemon] app crashed - waiting for file changes before starting...

Here is my npm and node version not sure if it has anything to do with this but i had to upgrade from an earlier:

(base) tangos@ubuntu:~/votenamibia$ npm -v 7.0.14 (base) tangos@ubuntu:~/votenamibia$ node -v v15.3.0

[geraldokandonga]

Hi @dev-mtshikomba have you run npm install ?

Also you need to have MongoDB Compass Community installed locally on your machine and create a database with the name votenamibia, or you can still connect to mongoDB through your account if you have

To connect MongoDB remote bellow is the code DATABASE=mongodb+srv://<yourusername>:<PASSWORD>@cluster0-bev59.mongodb.net/votenamibia ?retryWrites=true&w=majority DATABASE_PASSWORD=<PASSWORD>

To Connect locally DATABASE_LOCAL=mongodb://localhost:27017/votenamibia

That's all

[geraldokandonga]

Create a config.env file and add the following

`APP_NAME=VoteNamibia NODE_ENV=development PORT=3000

DATABASE_PASSWORD= DATABASE_LOCAL=mongodb://localhost:27017/

JWT_SECRET=never- JWT_EXPIRES_IN=90d JWT_COOKIE_EXPIRES_IN=90

EMAIL_USERNAME=mailtrapusername EMAIL_PASSWORD=mailtrappassword EMAIL_HOST=smtp.mailtrap.io EMAIL_PORT=25`

You need the above config.env in order to run it locally

[mtshikomba]

I've run npm install, I should create the config.env file in the root directory right? See Image below...

[mtshikomba]

I installed MongoDB locally in a docker image running at port 8081. See Image below.

[geraldokandonga]

Thats mongodb connection error, but can you connect to it with other apps that you may have worked on, if you are already connected to it through another app than I think you have to use the same method

And again don't forget to setup your mailing configuration, you need to do sign in if you want to add some testing data to the database

But the setup seems to be fine, thats all you need to run it locally

[geraldokandonga]

Also you need to expose your port to mongo by running mongo --port 8081 in your terminal

[mtshikomba]

Perfect this worked. I've added a Docker Image for MongoDB and Mongo Express to the project. I'll submit a pull request shortly.

[mtshikomba]

But I used the default port instead, just for consistency.

[geraldokandonga]

Great is it working now?