A command line application to manage a company's employee database, using Node.js, Inquirer, Console.table and MySQL2.
- Node.js
- Inquirer
- MySQL2
- Console.table
/ clone files / npm i / npm start / follow prompts
A database was created allowing company users to view and modify information about their workforce, covering salary, departments, role types and more in the CLI.
- Overall efficiency
- Async/Await
- Bonus features like overwriting data that had constraints - had difficulties with - foreign keys/child rows/ things breaking
- Updating selection menus to have a better user experience (e.g., showing role #s instead of title for update option)
- Better data validation & Formatting in presentation (e.g., dollars and commas)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/10L0OugkmrbZm38nLI1rE6iZlz7OD2v3d/view
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
GIVEN a command-line application that accepts user input
WHEN I start the application
THEN I am presented with the following options: view all departments, view all roles, view all employees, add a department, add a role, add an employee, and update an employee role
WHEN I choose to view all departments
THEN I am presented with a formatted table showing department names and department ids
WHEN I choose to view all roles
THEN I am presented with the job title, role id, the department that role belongs to, and the salary for that role
WHEN I choose to view all employees
THEN I am presented with a formatted table showing employee data, including employee ids, first names, last names, job titles, departments, salaries, and managers that the employees report to
WHEN I choose to add a department
THEN I am prompted to enter the name of the department and that department is added to the database
WHEN I choose to add a role
THEN I am prompted to enter the name, salary, and department for the role and that role is added to the database
WHEN I choose to add an employee
THEN I am prompted to enter the employee’s first name, last name, role, and manager and that employee is added to the database
WHEN I choose to update an employee role
THEN I am prompted to select an employee to update and their new role and this information is updated in the database