Node.js Blog App with Ejs & MongoDB

Explore how JavaScript started, and learn basics like variables (var, let, const), strings, numbers, booleans, and template literals with backticks, plus console output and string concatenation.

Set up your Node.js blog app with EJS and MongoDB by scaffolding folders like models, controllers, routes, and public assets, creating a server file, and configuring the database connection.

Learn how to scaffold ejs templates with layouts, set up a navigation system and header for a node.js blog app, and connect to mongodb to perform CRUD operations.

Use MDB5 layouts in a node.js blog app with EJS and MongoDB, integrating bootstrap; font awesome, and Google fonts via CDN to render header and footer, carousel, dropdowns, and cards.

Learn to perform read, update, and delete operations on a MongoDB collection using Node.js and Mongoose, including finding by id, handling errors, and reflecting changes in the console.

Upload images to a blog post using Express middleware and file upload, store images in the database and filesystem, and manage posts with Node.js and MongoDB.

Validate user input with middleware during registration, hash passwords with bcrypt before saving via a Mongoose pre-save hook, and enforce unique usernames and emails with front-end error feedback.

Build a Node.js blog app with EJS and MongoDB by creating controllers for posts, about, and home, plus a slug-based post view and user registration with validation.

Master conditional display in a node.js blog app by showing create post and logout when logged in, and register/login for guests, using express middleware and sessions.

Display form validation errors in a Node.js blog app by mapping mongoose validation errors to the view, storing them in session, and rendering them on redirect with ejs.