About The Project

Interact with other climbers, share the climbs you've completed, rate the climbs and create a better connection to the community we all know and love.

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Built with

Mongoose
Express.js
Node
EJS
Passport
TypeScript
JavaScript
CSS
Cloudinary

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Getting Started

Installation

In order to clone a local copy of this repository, please follow the steps below.

Navigate to the folder you would like to store the project

Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/schneedotdev/climbers-connect.git

Switch into the directory that was just created
```
cd climbers-connect
```
Install NPM packages
```
npm install
```
Navigate to the config folder
Create a .env file there called .env

Enter your MongoURI string in .env with the key DB_STRING

DB_STRING="<Replace everything in quotes with MongoDB Connection String>"

Create a session secret for express sessions called SESSION_SECRET
```
SESSION_SECRET="<any string value>"
```
Connect to your cloudinary db with the following 3 environment variables CLOUD_NAME, API_KEY, API_SECRET
```
CLOUD_NAME="<cloud name here>"
API_KEY="<api key here>"
API_SECRET="<api secret here>"
```
To run the application, use npm run start to run the app in a development environment