most of the availble resources i can find trying to offer guidance, end up being really old using replit or gitpod. im running this on my local machine, so im submitting http://localhost:3000/, i see MongoDB & Mongoose when i go therre and i have no clue what im doing wrong. every time i submit the challenges, i get both of them wrong, i have mongoose installed and its not even giving me that one. can someone point me in the right direction on this? ive been messing with it for like 2 hours now
First, localhost isn’t accessible to anyone but yourself on your own machine. fCC wants to run tests on your website, but it can’t run any tests on your localhost. For that reason, submitting a localhost URL won’t ever work.
So, you’ll have to somehow upload your site somewhere. One option might be GitHub Pages, which seems like you can just fire up your site right from one of your own repos, but I haven’t explored that. It seems appealing because it looks like you could just fork fCC’s repo and edit the code a little, instead of dealing with Gitpod or Replit or anything.
If this Reddit thread is to be believed, there are a few other free basic site hosters you could try, although I have no idea how you’d get them to work with fCC’s code or GitHub.
I did all of this backend API stuff back in ye olde Replit days lol. I feel like if GitHub Pages works, fCC should just plan on using that for their up-and-coming Full Stack Developer course.
@big We need to see your code. Post a repo with your code.
@shy_away You can complete these challenges locally. I know it is a little unintuitive, but it is just how the testing is done and works. The challenge page wouldn’t state you can complete it locally if you couldn’t.