Installation

To setup the Hexadash in local environment, follow below-mentioned steps:

Install Prerequisites

Make sure to have all above prerequisites installed & running on your computer.

Prerequisites

ExpressJs has a set of requirements in order to run smoothly in specific environment. Please see requirements section in Express js documentation.

Please follow below steps to install and setup all prerequisites:

• MongoDB

  Make sure to have the MongoDB installed & running in your computer. If you already have installed mongodb compass on your computer, you can skip this step.

• NPM

  You will get npm alongside with Nodejs installation

After you finished with the above steps, you can run the following commands to run the Nodejs Admin Dashboard in local environment:

Command	Description
npm install	command to install all of the framework's dependencies.
.env	The root directory of your application will contain database credentials
Please fill your DB credentials in the .env file. DATABASE_HOST = 127.0.0.1 DATABASE_PORT = 27017 DATABASE_NAME = hexadash
MIgration	This will migrate the database tables. For more details visit https://mongoosejs.com/docs/documents.html
Mongodb Start	start the connection of mongodb database.
npm start	Once the server starts successfully, you can access the application by navigating to http://127.0.0.1:5000 in your web browser.When you run npm start, it will automatically compile SCSS to CSS and locate the compiled CSS at public/css/all-custom.css. Additionally, it will watch for any changes in your SCSS files and automatically recompile the CSS every time you make changes.