/CragConnect

A rock climbing-focused social media for my University individual project, built with the MERN stack.

Primary LanguageJavaScriptMIT LicenseMIT

CragConnect - Rock Climbing Social Media

This is a social media app built for rock climbers to organise and talk about rock climbing.

Features

  • Posts
  • News feed
  • Event sharing
  • Fitness plans (strength and flexibility)
  • Fitness tracking and leaderboards
  • PartnerFind, to find a partner to climb with
  • User profiles and organisation profiles

Features that will be added

  • More tests

Features that might be added

  • Messaging/Links to a way to contact other users in profile
  • Notifications
  • Tailorable fitness plans
  • User authentication

Installation

To install the required dependencies, please run the following command (from the root directory):

cd client && npm i && cd .. && cd server && npm i && cd ..

Configuration

To configure the environment variables, please create a .env file in the server directory and add the following variables:

PORT=your_port
ATLAS_URI=your_mongodb_uri

To configure the environment variables for the client, please create a .env file in the client directory and add the following variables:

VITE_SERVER_URL=http://localhost:same_port_as_server

Build the client

To build the client, please run the following command (from the root directory):

cd client && npm run build && cd ..

Run

To run the program please run either of the following commands (from the root directory):

  1. Requires built client:
cd server && npm start
  1. Doesn't require built client (in separate terminals from the root directory):
cd client && npm run dev

cd server && npm start

Then, go to http://localhost:your_port