Please don't call it nonsense it's very useful. So this NONSENSE practical is my implementation of a website which streams audiobooks to its customers. Basically a poor man's Audible. However, this is no mere website, oh no. This is Bookstream.co.uk they store their customer data on my MySQL server hosted by St Andrews and I have to perform queries on the data and serve the appropriate responses to the user. Pretty standard stuff.
Well... yeah I know. That's because when I deployed the app on Heroku, St Andrews won't let me connect to the database necessary for some parts of the website. From my "testing" it seems that you should avoid Popular Audiobooks and All Audiobooks. You can look at the Log In and Sign Up screens if you want to (they're incredibly boring so I'd advise you against it) but if you complete and send the form, the site will crash on you. So don't do that. It's a shame, the Popular Audiobooks page actually looked really cool, but I don't know of a way to make the St Andrews servers see this as an authentic request from their own servers... Sorry :(
In reality... not much of the core application. Rather, changes are seen in how the application is deployed. Now an express server is being used, with the html being rendered as ejs to allow for me to make appropriate requests, receive the results and display them to the user.
Well... v1.0.0 was never a thing, but that didn't stop me from starting with v2.0.0. Anyway, a pseudo v1.0.0 can be seen as the application when it would not be sent as a response to a GET request to the new express server. That approach would not work for this practical, hence why v2.0.0. I guess. (That didn't really answer the question did it?)
- Firstly you'll probably need to clone the repository
no more of that GitHub Pages nonsense - Once cloned, go to the root folder of the project in terminal
- Then you'll need to type
npm installto install the dependencies (If you don't have node and npm get those first) - After you have the relevant dependencies, type
npm startto start the server - This will allow you to go to
localhost:20763in your browser to see the website - Simple Right?