For development, you will need Node.js and MongoDB installed on your environment.

To install Node, follow the official instructions for your OS here. You can also use a package manager if you prefer not to perform manual installation, instructions can be found here.

After installation, you should be able to run the commands below:

$ node --version
8.11.1

$ npm --version
5.6.0

MongoDB has easy to follow instructions for installation on your OS. Just like Node, you should be able to run this command after installation:

$ mongo --version
MongoDB shell version v3.6.4
git version: d0181a711f7e7f39e60b5aeb1dc7097bf6ae5856
OpenSSL version: OpenSSL 1.0.2o  27 Mar 2018
allocator: system
modules: none
build environment:
    distarch: x86_64
    target_arch: x86_64

Clone the repo and run npm install on the directory to download all Node dependencies:

$ git clone https://github.com/YuanchengWu/yelp-camp.git
$ cd <PROJECT DIRECTORY>
$ npm install

Simply have Mongo Daemon running then start Node on app.js:

Open a terminal to run Mongo Daemon on project directory:

$ mongod

In another terminal session, run:

$ node app.js

Go to localhost:3000 in your browser to view the web app.

• EJS for some templating.

• Bootstrap 4 is used for UI.

• Just plain CSS

• MongoDB for account and content creation/management.

• Express framework for routing and middleware.

• body-parser for incoming request handling/parsing.
• mongoose for simplifying MongoDB development.
• flash to flash messages on pages.
• passport for user authentication.