This is a simple blog using Node.js and Express.js with MongoDB Atlas as backend to persist the blog articles.
The initial skeleton of this app was created from Github Codespace's express web app template.
To setup this project, first create a hidden file .env on project root and update your mongo credentials.
MONGODB_URI = mongodb+srv://:@.mongodb.net/blog?retryWrites=true&w=majority
Before starting up the app, ensure you create your Mongo database on Atlas as follows: database name: blog collections: posts
To run this application on Codespace:
npm start
To run this application locally:
nodemon index.js