itamardavidyan / heroku-mlab-webinar

fullstack-website

upload full-stack website with Heroku + mongodb + mLab

Previous knowledge and Preparation

• knowledge: html, css (bootstrap), javascript, jquery and basics of node.js.
• installitions: node.js, GitHub desktop, git and code editor (VS Code / Sublime 3).
• sign up: Heroku + mLab.

Instructions:

initialization:

• clone this repo.
• run "npm install" on the repo folder.
• initialize PORT.
• run "npm start" and check all working => (http://localhost:8080/)

work with Heroku:

• sign up to Heroku.
• create new app.
• connect to github repo.
• enable automatic deploy.
• initialize PORT.
• commit & push the code to GitHub -.then() check on Heroku app.

work with mLab:

• sign up to mLab.
• create new DB. ('alerts')
• create new collection ('messages') with some documents ('{"id": 1, "msg": "Hello World", "counter": 0}').
• copy the MongoDB URI to 'index.js' file.
• add new user to the DB. (user: admin, password: myFirstWebinar1)
• modify the MongoDB - assign username + password.
• copy the MongoDB URI to 'Config Vars' in Heroku (MONGODB_URI : 'mongodb://admin:[email protected]:61112/alerts')
• use nodemon - run "nodemon index.js"
• example 0 - alert Hello + {name} .
• example 1 - simple connection to mongoDB.
• example 2 - get the count of documents and return random msg.
• example 3 - create new doc.
• example 4 - update counter.