vindb-web

A Node.js-based website for viewing and comparing products from Vinmonopolet's database.

Frameworks/technologies used

• AWS Elastic Beanstalk for easy deployment to AWS (Amazon Web Services)
• Express as HTTP server
• Pug/Jade as HTML template engine
• A mix of pure JavaScript and jQuery in the frontend
• MySQL as database backend

Requirements

• Node.js and NPM
• MySQL

Installing

1. Clone the repository
2. Run npm install in the cloned directory
3. Import db.sql to a new MySQL database
4. Input your database details to the .env file

Running

• Run set DEBUG=vindb-web:* & npm start

NOTE: The databse included on the repository is empty, which means there will be no products or changes unless you import them yourself. The raw data I used to generate the data, can be found here: https://www.vinmonopolet.no/datadeling