I really wanted to chose a topic that spoke to me and that I found interesting. I wanted to make my matching app about music, so I decided to build it around finding concerts and festivals that suits your liking. On the Concept page you will find more information on how I established my concept.

The feature I chose to build for my matching application is registration. I chose this feature, because I was really interested in how this can be created. I also thought this would give me a little bit of a challenge. When registrating for the matching application, it is possible to fill out the form in order to create your account. You can specify preferences, log in and delete your account.

Download and install Git for Windows.

• Select your own preferred editor (in my case Visual Studio Code).
• Make sure you override the default branch name for new repositories. If you choose 'main' as default branch name, this will align with the default used on GitHub.
• Finally select 'Git from the command line', so you can use Git commands in PowerShell.

Make sure you have git connected to your own github. Do this within your commandline like so: Connect Github to git.

Download and install Node.js.

• Make sure you download the LTS version(currently 18.16.0). This is the version that has the longest support.
• When installing make sure you select the npm package manager and not the default of Node.js runtime.

When you have done these steps, you can check if git, node and npm are correctly installed and have the right version. Run these commands in your terminal:

git -v 
node -v 
npm -v 

Before you are able to use the Mix&Match application, you have to connect to a database. In my case I used MongoDB. Create a MongoDB Cloud account. From here follow the steps on the MongoDB Guides page. Here is a small summary of the steps:

1. Create MongoDB account
2. Create a cluster
3. Add a database user
4. Configure a network connection
5. Load sample data
6. Get connection string

When you create your Cluster in Atlas you might need to Whitelist your IP.

Clone this repository to your own device

git clone https://github.com/TristanBrattinga/bloktech.git

When you have installed all the prerequisites, navigate to the project directory:

cd <path>/<path>/bloktech

Now install the required dependencies & devDependencies by running the following command:

npm install

Create a .env file and store sensitive information such as your database URI, password and username in this file .env using the dotenv package.

This should already be installed if you ran the command npm install.

My .env file looks like this:

PORT='<port which the server is hosted on>'
DB_USERNAME='<database username>'
DB_PASSWORD='<database passpowrd>'
DB_URI='<database uri string>'
DB_NAME='<database name>'
DB_COLLECTION_1='<collection name>'
DB_COLLECTION_2='<collection name>'

Make sure you add the .env file to your .gitignore.

Also include your node_modules folder in your .gitignore file.

To start the application I have made some npm run scripts. These make it easier to work with your application.

To start the application in normal mode, run:

npm start

To start the application in dev mode, run this command:

npm run devStart

After starting the application, open your browser and navigate to:

localhost:8080

In the Wiki you can find all the information about this project and the matching application I have built.

• NPM
• freeCodeCamp
• pt-course-22-23 repo
• be-course-22-23 repo
• fe-course-22-23 repo
• MongoDB
• Node.js
• Git for Windows
• SSH key
• ChatGPT
• License
• Github markdown cheat sheet
• Github emoji cheat sheet

You can find all the cited sources in my Wiki Resources Page.

MIT

Disclaimer: All of the code and documentation found in this repository is written by myself or quoted.