An implementation of a comment section design provided by frontendmentor.

1. Built with node.js.
2. Hosted on Hostinger. The project uses the KVM1 hosting solution, where the code is deployed using pm2. MySql is used as the database technology.
3. The design used is the interactive-comments-section challenge from frontendmentor.
4. I used sass and Google Fonts for styling.

• The upvotes functionality.
• The replies at the moment are normal comments with a span containing @[username] referencing the replied to comment. Ideally they would be placed under the comment that is being replied to and indented a bit.
• On my phone the website does not load correctly. svg icons don't get loaded and logging in causes the css to not get loaded. I could not replicate this on my friend's iphone or on https://appetize.io/.
• Handling niche situations such as: Deleting a comment that has replies pointing to it.
• Validate inputs server side. Currently they're only validated client-side. At the least guard against SQL injection.
• Refactoring the code to use a modern frontend framework such as React for client-side rendering instead of rendering server-side with handlebars.
• Refactoring the backend-side to use a framework such as express or fastify instead of the http node module.

Run the command node server.js in the root of this repo to start the server.

Platform: Windows

I'm using MySQL Community Server - GPL, version 8.0.36.

server.js will assume this computer has a MySql server running for user = "root" with password = "qweasd123" on localhost:3306.

These details can be changed in db_config.json.

If you're on windows, download the installer from: https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/installer/ and follow the instructions provided.