Thread Talk is a web forum where users can post short discussion threads and other users can comment on said threads.
- Deployed in threadtalk.onrender.com
- Express app with MongoDB for database management
- User registration and login
- User details editing
- User post history under profile tab
- Hashed passwords using bcrypt
- Posts with voting system
- Comments with voting system
- Search system that can search for post title, content, or author
- Coo, Hans
- Flaminiano, Peter
- Fuentespina, Aian
- Srivastava, Naman
- bcrypt
- body-parser
- connect-mongodb-session
- dotenv
- express-session
- express-validator
- express
- hbs
- mongodb
- mongoose
- node
- supervisor
To set-up the web app in local host simply complete the following steps:
- Download the source files and extract to any folder
- Open a command line or terminal on the root of the folder
- Run
npm installon the command line - Wait for dependencies to download and install
- On the command line, input either:
node index.jsornpx supervisor index.js
- Open any web browser
- Enter
localhost:9090to the address bar- Note: If this does not work, try
127.0.0.1:9090.
- Note: If this does not work, try
- By now the web app should have started on your browser.
To access online, simply click on the following link threadtalk.onrender.com
- The website is not loading.
- If on local host, check the command line. Supervisor tends to crash, and restart when running.
- I lost my password.
- Unfortunately, due to one-way hashing using bcrypt, it is impossible to retrieve your password. We can delete your account and allow you to re-register under the same username, provided that username hasn't been taken.