Content Management System using MySQL

Developers are often tasked with creating interfaces that make it easy for non-developers to view and interact with information stored in databases. Often these interfaces are known as Content Management Systems. In this homework assignment, your challenge is to architect and build a solution for managing a company's employees using node, inquirer, and MySQL.

Design the following database schema containing three tables:

• department:

  • id - INT PRIMARY KEY
  • name - VARCHAR(30) to hold department name

• role:

  • id - INT PRIMARY KEY
  • title - VARCHAR(30) to hold role title
  • salary - DECIMAL to hold role salary
  • department_id - INT to hold reference to department role belongs to

• employee:

  • id - INT PRIMARY KEY
  • first_name - VARCHAR(30) to hold employee first name
  • last_name - VARCHAR(30) to hold employee last name
  • role_id - INT to hold reference to role employee has
  • manager_id - INT to hold reference to another employee that manages the employee being Created. This field may be null if the employee has no manager

Build a command-line application that at a minimum allows the user to:

• Add departments, roles, employees

• View departments, roles, employees

• Update employee roles

We can frame this challenge as follows:

As a business owner
I want to be able to view and manage the departments, roles, and employees in my company
So that I can organize and plan my business

How do you deliver this? Here are some guidelines:

• MySQL
• Inquirer JS
• Console Table
• ASCII-Art

• Functional application.

• GitHub repository with a unique name and a README describing the project.

• The command-line application should allow users to:

  • Add departments, roles, employees

  • View departments, roles, employees

  • Update employee roles

• The command-line application should allow users to:

  • Update employee managers

  • View employees by manager

  • Delete departments, roles, and employees

  • View the total utilized budget of a department -- ie the combined salaries of all employees in that department

• Interesting items:
  • Encountered challenges with a local installation of MSSQL, conflicts with MySQL and MySQL Workbench bugs. The workaround was to deploy a database to Heroku and connect to the remote database to complete this project.
  • Opportunities for future development:
    • Build additional error recovery and "Are you sure?" prompts.
    • Improve the visual layout of the menu to reduce data entry errors.
    • Include validation for selected fields.
    • Include additional permissions to delete roles, employees or departments.
    • Implement a robust search feature to avoid potential data duplication.