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JavaScript User Authentication With Express and Mongo What is Authentication? Setting Up the Project

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<noob />
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I cant do this course its really frustrating...

dave dont explain how to setup the project files well, I get this error everytime i do node app.js...

David Ryan
David Ryan
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What is your error?

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Dale Severude
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Dale Severude
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To setup the project you will need to copy over the project files to your computer and then at the terminal run npm install to install all the dependencies.

To start the project run mongod at the terminal and then open a second terminal window and run npm start.

To view the website, open a browser and go to the URL: http://localhost:3000

This is assuming you have already installed npm, node, and mongoDB from previous courses. If not, you may want to take the prerequisites first.

Julian Shadrin
Julian Shadrin
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Julian Shadrin
Julian Shadrin
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  1. Open terminal in IDE
  2. Open code project folder in IDE
  3. Type "ls" into terminal for current folders in code project folder
  4. Type into terminal "cd S1V4" then press tab to autocomplete file path
  5. You should now be in correct file path for start of this lesson e.x.(JavaScript-user-auth-express\JavaScript-user-auth-express\S1V4\public
  6. Type in "npm install"
<noob />
<noob />
17,062 Points
<noob />
<noob />
17,062 Points

how to set up mongodb, how to even start the project, i dont know how to access the file in the cmd