Case Study - Monorepo

Backend

• Register (with email verification)
• Login
• Create Todo
• Edit Todo
• Add thumbnail to Todo
• Add attachments to Todo
• Download/View attachments from Todo

Frontend

• GUI for related backend functionalities

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Required Environment variables

.env files are located in root of each folder

backend

NODE_ENV = ''
MONGO_URI = ''
PORT = ''
JWT_SECRET = ''
MAIL_ADDRESS = ''
MAIL_PASSWORD = ''
CLIENT_URL = ''
SERVER_URL = ''

• gmail nodemailer password generation

• MongoDB collection names are todos and users. Any URI should work just fine. But be careful about collection name collision.

• Default ones are below but it can vary if ports are in use.

CLIENT_URL = 'http://localhost:1234'
SERVER_URL = 'http://localhost:3000'

frontend

SERVER_URL = ''

• Default one is 'http://localhost:3000'

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To Run App (with .env vars!)

backend

cd backend
npm i
npm start

frontend

cd frontend
npm i
npm start

Shortcut from the root

npm i
npm run prepare
npm run kickstart