Online Examination APP

Prerequisites

• Install Node js from Node.js (with NPM).
• Install XAMP or WAMP which can be used to run phpMyAdmin for MySQL DB.
• Any text editor for project like visual studio code, sublime, atom, etc.

Running the projects

Frontend

• Open terminal and navigate to this directory online-examination-frontend
• execute command npm install
• Once installed, execute command npm start
• The above command will run the frontend and open the browser automatically.
• If it does not open, visit http://localhost:3000/ to see the frontend app.

Backend

• Open terminal and navigate to this directory online-examination-backend
• After navigating, Open .env file from the root of this directory.
• Set up your phpMyAdmin credentials in it and save it.
• execute command npm install
• Once installed, execute command npm start
• The above command will run the backend.
• You can check it by visiting the url http://localhost:8000.
• Navigate to the API_test.rest file which contains all the endpoints for the backend.

Setting up database

• After running the app using npm start, follow the below steps.
• Navigate to the API_test.rest file which contains all the endpoints for the backend.
• To setup the database and tables, hit the following endpoint http://localhost:8000/api/auth/setupDatabaseAndTables in your browser or directly from the .rest file.
• The above endpoint will create the database and all the necessary tables need for the app with predefined data.
• Navigate to the phpMyAdmin and look for the database called examination_app.
• If the databse endpoint fails, check your phpMyAdmin config in the .env file or follow the below steps.
• If fails, create a db called examination_app in the phpMyAdmin. Import the file examination_app.sql located at the root of the repository in a folder called database.