• Create a burger logger with MySQL, Node, Express, Handlebars and a homemade ORM.
• Follow the MVC design pattern;
• Use Node and MySQL to query and route data in the application
• Handlebars to generate your HTML.

• Eat-Da-Burger! is a restaurant app that lets users input the names of burgers they'd like to eat.

• Whenever a user submits a burger's name, it will display the burger on the left side of the page -- waiting to be devoured.

• Each burger in the waiting area also has a Devour it! button. When the user clicks it, the burger will move to the right side of the page.

• It will store every burger in a database, whether devoured or not.

• Check out this video of the app for a run-through of how it works.

All the recommended files and directories from the steps above should look like the following structure:

.
├── config
│   ├── connection.js
│   └── orm.js
│ 
├── controllers
│   └── burgers_controller.js
│
├── db
│   ├── schema.sql
│   └── seeds.sql
│
├── models
│   └── burger.js
│ 
├── node_modules
│ 
├── package.json
│
├── public
│   └── assets
│       ├── css
│       │   └── burger_style.css
│       └── img
│           └── burger.png
│   
│
├── server.js
│
└── views
    ├── index.handlebars
    └── layouts
        └── main.handlebars

Now that we have a backend to our applications, we use Heroku for hosting. Please note that while Heroku is free, it will request credit card information if you have more than 5 applications at a time or are adding a database.

Please see Heroku’s Account Verification Information for more details.

When trying to connect remotely to your Heroku database on an open network such as a coffee shop, library, or even your University WiFi, it will be blocked. If experiencing a Heroku connection error, this could be why.

Good Luck!

_{© Paul Xu at Univerversity of Toronto School of Continuing Studies Coding Boot Camp in April 2019}