Vitanao

Spur of the moment bones to a chat application using node.js and MongoDB following a neat little tutorial.

This is purely to learn and just for fun 😸!

Dependencies

To run this project clone the repository and make sure you have mongoDB and Node JS installed.

In addition to node you will also need to npm install some other things into the project directory:

  npm install socket.io
  npm install mongo

Development

Getting started with MongoDB

To get mongo running you will likely have hunt for it in your usr/local/bin/ file. If you are a Mac/Linux user and can't find where these binaries are located try running the following command in your terminal:

which mongo

If you're on a Mac it will likely be located in:

cd /usr/local/bin

If you are a Windows user and can't find these binaries try the following:

where mongo

From here you should cd into whatever directory the previous command provides on two separate terminal windows. On one of the terminal windows run:

mongod

This runs the mongo daemon. MongoDB will start to listen for connections.

In another terminal window run:

mongo

This will connect us to the database and you will see a connection opened in the terminal running mongod.

It's important to note that that any data that is stored within the database will be saved by default in:

cd /data/db

You can change this by changing some configurations :P.

Getting Started with NodeJS

In another terminal window/tab you will need to run the node.js server. You can do this by simply running the following command in the directory containing server.js:

node server.js

And you should be good to go by opening the index.html file in a browser!