Employee-Tracker

Command Line Application that allows user to architect and build a solution for managing a company's employees. using node, inquirer, and MySQL.

Table of Contents

• User_Story
• Instructions
• Acceptance Criteria
• Helpful links

User Story

I want to be able to view and manage the departments, roles, and employees in my company So that I can organize and plan my business

Instructions

Design the following database schema containing three tables:

• department:

  • id - INT PRIMARY KEY
  • name - VARCHAR(30) to hold department name

• role:

  • id - INT PRIMARY KEY
  • title - VARCHAR(30) to hold role title
  • salary - DECIMAL to hold role salary
  • department_id - INT to hold reference to department role belongs to

• employee:

  • id - INT PRIMARY KEY
  • first_name - VARCHAR(30) to hold employee first name
  • last_name - VARCHAR(30) to hold employee last name
  • role_id - INT to hold reference to role employee has
  • manager_id - INT to hold reference to another employee that manager of the current employee. This field may be null if the employee has no manager

Acceptance Criteria

• Functional application.

• GitHub repository with a unique name and a README describing the project.

• The command-line application should allow users to:

  • Add departments, roles, employees

  • View departments, roles, employees

  • Update employee roles

Helpful links

• Use the MySQL NPM package to connect to your MySQL database and perform queries.

• Use InquirerJs NPM package to interact with the user via the command-line.

• Use console.table to print MySQL rows to the console. There is a built-in version of console.table, but the NPM package formats the data a little better for our purposes.