MERN Meetup App

Live: https://serene-retreat-94411.herokuapp.com

A Social network for developers to connect. Powered by the MERN stack

App's functionalities:

• Signup/Signin into MeetUp

• Add details to profiles (Education, Experience, Social Links etc.)

• Post updates, like and comment on different posts in the MeetUp community

Techonologies:

• JavaScript(ES6)/CSS/JSX

• MERN (MongoDB + Express + React + Node.js)

• React Hooks

• Redux store

• JSON Web Token, express-validator

• Gravatar

• Github's REST APIs

Credit: https://www.udemy.com/course/mern-stack-front-to-back/

Running the project

Step 1: Clone the repository

Step 2: Go to the client folder, run yarn || npm install to install all the needed dependencies

Step 3: Back out and go to the server folder, create a .env file using .example.env as the template and fill out the variables.

• Step 3.1: Go to cloud.mongodb.com, sign-in then create a new shared cluster with a cloud service (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud)
• Step 3.2: When it comes to network access, provide 0.0.0.0/0 as the IP address to allow connect to the cluster from anywhere
• Step 3.3: After done creating the cluster, navigate to the Database tab, then hit Connect => Connect Your Application => copy the URL => back to the project folder => paste it to the MONGO_URL variable in .env file

Step 4: While still in server folder, run yarn || npm install to install all the needed dependencies

Step 5: Run yarn server || npm run server to start the server using nodemon OR run yarn dev || npm run dev to start both client and server using concurrently