||WorkforceOne||
This application was built to assist an administrator of a company with quickly and easily viewing and updating employee information within the company database, using a minimal, attractive command-line interface.
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What's under the hood?
Application developed using the following tech:
- dotenv node package to hide sensitive user information
- inquirer.js to handle prompts and processing of user input
- mysql2 node package to maintain a connection with the user's MySQL database during use
- chalk node package to style command line text
- console.table package for attractive formatting of database tables
Building your workforce
NOTE: The user should have node.js installed on their local machine, and be familiar with navigating the command line, to harness this application's functionality
- Clone the github repo to your local machine @ WorkforceOne Repo
- At the root level of the application directory, inside the terminal, run the command
npm install- Once all of the necessary packages have been installed, add a file named '.env' at the root level.
- Within the '.env' file, initialize three environemntal variables like so, with the user's specific information inside each string:
DB_NAME='<name of your sql database>'
DB_USER='<sql username>'
DB_PASS='<sql password>'- Finally, run this command in the terminal:
npm start
Check it out
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