README

Simple node/express app that implements google maps api to display location of addresses

Setting up

• Open cli and go to root directory of project
• run npm install
• If you have a api key of your own, replace it in credentials.js file
• run node app.js and visit http://localhost:3000 to view the app

Editing code

• Primary file is app.js located in root directory
• Server logic is inside /server directory
• for debugging run npm run debug and open http://127.0.0.1:8080/debug?port=5858.

Features

• ejs is used as the view engine and body-parser is used to access incoming post requests.
• rendering the map is handled client side. most of the heavy lifting for
• rendering the map is done by the script from maps.googleapis.com.
• bootstrap is used as the css framework for styling.
• MVC framework is used for organizing the code on the server side.
• for testing the routes supertest is used.