kieran-arul/budgeting-website

Website to help people track their expenditure and manage their budget

Project Overview

• This website helps users to track their budget and manage their expenditure in a convenient, intuitive way.

How to Use

1. If you do not have MongoDB installed, follow steps 1-4. These steps assume you are running Mac OS. If you are running Windows, please visit: https://www.mongodb.com/docs/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-windows/ First, ensure you have xcode command line tools installed

xcode-select --install

2. Tap the MongoDB Homebrew tap by running the code below. This assumes you have homebrew installed. If not, visit: https://brew.sh/#install

brew tap mongodb/brew

3. Update Homebrew

brew update

4. Install MongoDB

brew install [email protected]

5. To ease the process of starting and stopping the mongod process, open up your bash profile

nano ~/.bash_profile

6. Create an alias to start the mongod process by entering the following line in your bash profile

alias mongodbstart='brew services start [email protected]'

7. Create an alias to stop the mongod process by entering the following line in your bash profile

alias mongodbstop='brew services stop [email protected]'

8. Save and close your bash profile

9. Clone the repository to your local machine

git clone https://github.com/Kieran-Arul/budgeting-website

10. Navigate into the project directory

cd budgeting-website

11. Run the following command to install the necessary dependencies

npm install

12. Start the mongod process

mongodbstart

12. Run the following command to start a server on Port 8080:

npm start

13. Open up your internet browser and go to:

http://localhost:8080/

14. You should now be able to browse the website

15. When you are finished, stop the server from running by hitting CTRL-C

16. Terminate the mongod process:

mongodbstop