How to Install Our Shopping List on Arch Linux

Our Shopping List is an open-source web application designed for managing a shared shopping list. It includes authentication functionality, enabling users to sign up, log in, and manage their own shopping lists.

The following tutorial will guide you through the installation process on Arch Linux.

Prerequisites

Before you start, ensure that you have the following:

• Arch Linux up and running
• Node.js and npm installed on your system
• A command-line terminal

Step 1: Clone the repository

Begin by cloning the Our Shopping List repository from GitHub. You can do this using the following command:

git clone https://github.com/nanawel/our-shopping-list.git

This will clone the repository into a local directory called our-shopping-list.

Step 2: Install dependencies

Next, navigate to the cloned repository and install the project dependencies using npm:

cd our-shopping-list
npm install

This will install all the required packages and dependencies for the project.

Step 3: Configure the database

Our Shopping List stores data in a MongoDB database. You'll need to create a new database and user for the application to use.

To get started, open up a mongo shell and create a new database:

mongo
use our-shopping-list

Next, create a new user with read and write permissions on the our-shopping-list database:

db.createUser(
   {
     user: "yourusername",
     pwd: "yourpassword",
     roles: [ "readWrite", "dbAdmin" ]
   }
)

Be sure to replace "yourusername" and "yourpassword" with your desired values.

Finally, create a new file called .env in the root directory of the project, and set the following environment variables:

MONGO_URI=mongodb://yourusername:yourpassword@localhost:27017/our-shopping-list
SESSION_SECRET=your_session_secret

Replace the values for yourusername, yourpassword, and your_session_secret with your desired values.

Step 4: Run the application

Once you've installed the dependencies and configured the database, you can run the application using the following command:

npm start

This will start the application on port 3000. You can access it in your web browser by visiting http://localhost:3000.

Conclusion

That's it! You've successfully installed Our Shopping List on Arch Linux. You can now sign up, log in, and start using the application to manage your shopping lists.

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