README.md

Form with ExpressJS and MongoDB

This is a Scholarship Form that takes data and stores in its database.

Website : http://scholarships.tk/

• Technologies Used
  • HTML - here
  • CSS - here
  • NodeJS - here
    • ExpressJS - here
  • Pug Engine - here
  • MongoDB (DataBase) - here

Prerequisite Downloads

• NodeJS - https://nodejs.org/en/download/
• MongoDB - https://www.mongodb.com/try/download/community

Getting Started

At first, Run command in this repo directory to install required modules : npm install

You are good to go now. Run index.js file and go to http://localhost/ to visit your site.
You can always change your port in the index.js file :

const host = 'localhost';
const port = 80;

Retrieving Your data

• Open Command Prompt or Terminal and Run Command : mongod. Leave it running
• Open another Command Prompt or terminal and Run Command : mongo. You will see a shell.
• In the shell , Run Command : use MyDB (As this is our default database).
• Now Run Command : db.scholarships.find(). You will see the data :).

You can always change names of databases and collections in the index.js.
MongoDB Tutorial : here

Extra

I have hosted this website on Amazon AWS and used freenom domain for free :)

References

• WebDev Tutorials - here
• Hosting on AWS - here
• Link domain to AWS - here
  

Thank You
Regards,
Kumar spandan Pattanayak