The Employee-Tracker is an CLI application used to keep track of your businesses Departments, Roles, and Employees. My motivation for creating this application was to help anyone who owns a business keep track of their Departments, Roles, and Employees straight from the command line. During the process of building this application I learned how to utilize SQL to create a database, connect it to a server using mysql2, and then using queries to add data or view it depending on the user prompt. I struggled with creating queries to help join and add to my database. I also struggled with creating a relationship between the employees and manager.

For the future development of this application I plan on creating a better relationship between the manager and the employee keys within SQL. There is also a bug where viewing the tables won't start the inquirer prompt again that needs to be fixed. Also sometimes the tbales on the CLI are buggy.

1. Git clone the repository using the following command: git clone [email protected]:StunnaDawg/employee-tracker.git
2. Through the CLI cd into the employee-tracker directory
3. Make sure to have nodejs(https://nodejs.org/) and Mysql(https://www.mysql.com/)
4. Ensure to 'npm install' all the dependencies
5. Run 'node index.js' to start the server and prompts
   • NOTE: When selecting 'View all Employeees', 'View all Roles', or 'View all Departments' you will need to RESTART using the command 'CTRL C' to stop the server and then 'node index.js' to restart the server due to a bug in the current version causing inquirer to stop.
6. Answer the prompts to add your data to the tables.

Upon downloading the application make sure you do the following:

• run 'npm install' so that the dependencies are installed
  • If the dependencies do not exist: run 'npm i [email protected]', 'npm i express', 'npm i mysql2', and 'npm i console.table' to download the latest version of each npm
• run 'node index.js' to recieve the question prompts'

Link: https://watch.screencastify.com/v/mxDm7DgpvA7pB21UMRiv

• nodeJS: https://nodejs.org/en
• mysql2: https://www.mysql.com/
• inquirer: https://www.npmjs.com/package/inquirer
• express: https://www.npmjs.com/package/express
• console.table: https://www.npmjs.com/package/console.table?activeTab=readme