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A chat room with message searching!
Node is a JavaScript interpreter and we need it to run our JavaScript server. Download ithere.
Download Elastic Searchhere.
- Download Elastic Search, unzip it, and put it somewhere easily accessible from the command line (e.g. desktop)
Java Development Kit (JDK) is used by ElasticSearch, our DB technology. Downloadhere.
- NOTE: this is different from the JRE, which is included in the JDK.
- Before starting the server, we need to start the Elastic Search database:
/path/to/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch- You'll see a smattering of logs
- Leave this command prompt window/tab open
- Run
curl http://localhost:9200to ensure its running- You should get a JSON object containing info about the Elastic Search version
- On your command line, change directories:
cd app/ - Install the necessary packages:
npm install- This will look inside the
package.jsonfile for the project's dependencies - This will create a
package-lock.jsonfile -- ignore it
- This will look inside the
- To start the web app, run:
node app.js