Build and Publish a Car Rental Website

Open gate bash, create a car rental project folder on the c drive, initialize the app with npm init, and install dependencies with npm install.

Set up express handlebars as the view engine, create views and layouts, render the home template with a car rental title, and run the server on port three thousand.

Learn to connect client side to the server using express static and a public folder, link css and javascript, and manipulate the dom to verify on port 3000.

Install Nordmann to auto restart the server on changes, configure a start script, and run the car rental back end on port 3000 with live logs.

Make the car rental website responsive and mobile friendly by integrating bootstrap via CDN and adding the bootstrap link to the head, then test on localhost:3000.

Learn to implement a login form for a car rental website, including email and password fields, input validation, and rendering a login page via handlebars templates and routes.

Configure a login flow using passport local, wiring a /login post route with success redirect to /profile and failure redirect to /login, then test the login form.

Display the user profile after a successful login by rendering a profile template with the user's image, first name, and last name using Bootstrap styling.