Blog Server

Barebones example blog for teaching purposes complete with authentication (!), backed by a MySQL database.

Prerequisites

You must have a MySQL database available to connect to. It should have the following tables, at minimum:

users

id	username	hash

posts

id	title	summary	full_text	image	date

Installing

npm install

Running

You need to pass appropriate environment variables in order for the database connection to be made. Example: DB_USER=myuser DB_PASSWORD=mypass DB_NAME=blog nodemon index.js