Phonebook App - FullPages

A phonebook web app where users can create, update, delete, and filter contacts. Live at fullpages.herokuapp.com.

To replace a contact's number, create a new contact with the same name and select OK on the alert that pops up.

⚙ Technologies

• Backend: Node.js - Express
  • Mongoose to connect to MongoDB
  • Morgan to log requests
  • Mongoose Unique Validator to prevent duplicate names
  • Dotenv to hide MongoDB URI
• Frontend: React
  • Axios to send HTTP requests to backend
• Database: MongoDB
• Deployed with Heroku

🚀 Getting started

Clone the repository and run npm install in phonebook-web-app and phonebook-web-app/react-ui.

Copy the contents of .env.template into an .env file. Create a cluster and a database user in MongoDB Atlas. Then, connect your application and set the value of MONGODB_URI in .env to the connection string.

Inside the configured phonebook-web-app project, you can run some commands:

npm start

Runs server with REST API endpoints and production build.

npm run dev

Has same functionality as npm start, in addition to automatic updates with changes to code.

npm run build:ui

Creates or updates production build and copies the static files into the backend.

npm run deploy

Deploys the project to Heroku.

npm run deploy:full

Creates build, commits to GitHub, and deploys project.

npm run logs:prod

Shows Heroku logs.

npm run lint

Runs ESLint.