Light-Search-Engine

a project to demonstrate some information retrieval principles

Getting Started

• run npm install from the project directory, to install all required packages
• run npm install bower -g then run bower install to install all frontend required packages
• needs Mysql database, configurations are at /config/env.js, default database name is light_search_engine, you can check the connection with the database by running npm run test-db
• run npm run scrapping to start scrapping process, takes ~300sec for ~7500 record
• run npm start to launch the website
• access the website via http://localhost:3000