social-media-project

Social network for developers

This is a MERN stack application, a small social network app that includes authentication, profiles and forum posts.

App Info

Author

Alicia Lycan

Version

1.0.0

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License

To Start

Add a default.json file in config folder with the following

{
  "mongoURI": "<your_mongoDB_Atlas_uri_with_credentials>",
  "jwtSecret": "secret",
  "githubToken": "<yoursecrectaccesstoken>"
}

Install server dependencies

npm install

Install client dependencies

cd client
npm install

Run both Express & React from root

npm run dev

Build for production

cd client
npm run build

Test production before deploy

After running a build in the client, cd into the root of the project.
Run:

NODE_ENV=production node server.js

Check in browser on http://localhost:5000/