Welcome to PhotoLabs! This application is constructed using React and is a great demonstration of a single-page application (SPA) in action.
PhotoLabs allows users to:
- View photos fetched from an API.
- Navigate through photos from various topics.
- Get a closer look at any photo and explore similar ones.
- Like their favorite photos.
- Get notified of the photos they've liked.
- Clone this repository onto your local device.
- Install dependencies with
npm install
in each respective/frontend
and/backend
directory. - Follow directions in
/backend
directory README before continuing. - Run the following commands to start the frontend server
cd frontend
npm start
- @testing-library/jest-dom: Provides custom jest matchers to test the state of the DOM. Version: ^5.16.5
- @testing-library/react: Lightweight solution for testing React components. Version: ^13.4.0
- @testing-library/user-event: Simulate user events for testing purposes. Version: ^13.5.0
- react: JavaScript library for building user interfaces. Version: ^18.2.0
- react-dom: Serves as the entry point to the DOM and server renderers for React. Version: ^18.2.0
- react-router-dom: DOM bindings for React Router, aiding in navigation. Version: ^6.16.0
- react-scripts: Scripts and configuration used by Create React App. Version: 5.0.1
- web-vitals: Helps to measure and report on web vitals for performance enhancement. Version: ^2.1.4
- body-parser: Middleware to parse incoming request bodies in a middleware before the handlers. Version: ^1.18.3
- cors: Middleware that can be used to enable CORS with various options. Version: ^2.8.5
- dotenv: Zero-dependency module that loads environment variables from a .env file into process.env. Version: ^7.0.0
- express: Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for Node.js. Version: ^4.16.4
- helmet: Helps secure Express apps with various HTTP headers. Version: ^3.18.0
- pg: Non-blocking PostgreSQL client for Node.js. Version: ^8.5.0
- socket.io: Enables real-time bidirectional event-based communication. Version: ^2.2.0
- ws: Simple WebSocket library for Node.js. Version: ^7.0.0