Setup
Tocly is a fully featured Node.js Responsive Template with MongoDB .
Prerequisites
Please follow below steps to install and setup all rerequisites:
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Nodejs
Make sure to have Node.js installed & running on your computer. If you already have installed Node on your computer, you can skip this step if your existing node version is 18 or later. We suggest you to use LTS version of Node.js.
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MongoDB Compass
Make sure to have the MongoDB Compass installed & running in your computer. If you already have installed MongoDB Compass on your computer, you can skip this step. MongoDB Compass version must be greater then equal to 1.12.
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Database
-MongoDB Compass(option 1)
STEP-1: open compass and connect with localhost
-MongoDB Atlas(option 2)
Make sure to have Account in MongoDB Atlas. If you don't have account then create Atlas account and follow below steps to connect with MongoDb Atlas.
STEP-1: Create account
STEP-2: After verifying email click on build Database
STEP-3: Choose shared database for free...
STEP-4: Click on
create cluster
and enter Database username and password and click on create.
STEP-5: Wait until the process is completed and then click on
connect
STEP-6: Select your current ip address and click on create database user.
STEP-7: After finish above step then click on Choose connection method.
STEP-8: Now copy the given link and close the model
STEP-9: Now Open config.env and then paste the connection string in
DATABASE_URL=
.STEP-10: Now click on
Collections
and then clickAdd My Own Data
STEP-11: Then Enter your database name and collection(table) name
Installation
To setup the Tocly, follow below-mentioned steps:
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Install Prerequisites
Make sure to have all above prerequisites installed & running on your computer.
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Install Dependencies
Open your terminal at the root directory of the project, go to your folder and enter the command
npm install
. This would install all the required dependencies in thenode_modules
folder.
After you finished with the above steps, you can run the following commands into the terminal/command prompt from the root directory (Tocly_Nodejs_v*/Admin/ ) of the project to run the project locally or build for production use:
Command | Description |
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npm install --silent
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This would install all the required dependencies in the
node_modules folder.
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npm run build
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Compile sass files and generate css files . |
npm start
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Runs the project locally, starts the development server. The development server is accessible at http://localhost:8000. |