john-guerra / nodeexpressmongoes6_promptstorer

A basic demo application of a prompt storer using Node Express Mongo ES6 modules and client side rendering with AJAX. Made for my webdev class

nodeExpressMongoES6_promptStorer

A basic demo application of a prompt storer using Node Express Mongo ES6 modules and client side rendering with AJAX. Made for my webdev class

Running the project

Clone it, then create a .env file in the project folder that contains your MONGO_URL connection string. It defaults to mongodb://localhost:27017

Then in the project folder run

npm install
npm start

And open your browser on http://localhost:3000

Deploying

You can deploy it for free on Render, with the database running on MongoAtlas

Make sure you configure the right node version in the package.json file. In this case we have:

 "engines": {
    "node": ">=18.18.0 <19.0.0"
  }

Then obtain the MONGO_URL from Mongo Atlas, and configure it on the render project in the environment settings. You can add it as a secret .env file

Finally, make sure that in Mongo Atlas you whitelist ips of your deployment on render https://render.com/docs/static-outbound-ip-addresses

And that's it