gnoparus/cld-fundamentals-for-developers

Source code for Fundamentals for Developers Course

Cloudinary Fundamentals for Developers

This code repository supports the Cloudinary Customer Education course offered Self Service offered in the Cloudinary Academy and virtual online courses offered throughout the year.

Download, clone or fork this repository so that you can work along with the code.

Setup

Install the latest version of node.js/npm to follow along with node exercises. Download node.js and npm. You must be at Node.js Version 10 or greater.

You can update node/npm with this command: npm i npm@latest -g

IDE

We'll be using Visual Studio Code to manage code in demos.

A text editor will work, but we recommend these IDE's for working with JavaScript as well:

• Atom
• AWS Cloud 9
• Brackets
• WebStorm
• Sublime

Setting up an HTTP Server

I’ll be using Visual Studio Code with the Live Server extension to serve HTML files on localhost.

Another alternative to using the VS Code live server extension is to install the npm http-server

npm i -g http-server

and open the server from the terminal with

npx http-server

If you're using a Mac, you can use the built in python server

python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

.env

Your .env file is .gitignored and can’t be accidentally checked into a repository because it will contain your API_SECRET.

In the root of the project, you’ll find a .env.template file. Copy it to an .env file and add your information:

cp .env.template .env

This link will take you to the Console, where you can copy the Cloudinary URL into your buffer: https://www.cloudinary.com.

The .env file should contain the CLOUDINARY_URL and a USER_NAME which is the email you used to sign up for the account.

CLOUDINARY_URL=<cloudinary URL from console>
USER_NAME=<cloudinary account email>

How to Run the node.js scripts

Before running any scripts you need to run npm install in the terminal.