Description

On Opinions, you can create an account, share your opinions, and look at the opinions of others. While you can't counter their opinions directly, you can give them a like if you are feeling that sweet sweet reinforcement of your own beliefs--or downvote them to eternity, up to you

View Project Here: Opinions Social Network

Technologies used

Made with Node.js and Express, MongoDB and Mongoose, vanilla JavaScript, EJS, TailwindCSS, and Cloudinary. Node way, are we right?

Use and Installation

To use this project as a base for your own project--expanding on what we've done so far--fork the project, clone it to your local machine, and work from there! Feel free to submit pull requests if you have any additions that go along with the theme of our project. A task list is down below with future suggested improvements.

Install

npm install

Things to add

Create a .env file and add the following as key = value
- PORT = 2121 (can be any port example: 3000)
- DB_STRING = your database URI
- CLOUD_NAME = your cloudinary cloud name
- API_KEY = your cloudinary api key
- API_SECRET = your cloudinary api secret

Note: you will need to setup a cluster on MongoDB as well as create a cloudinary account to fill in the environment variables above

Run

npm start or npm run dev

Packages/Dependencies Used:

"autoprefixer": "^10.2.5",
"bcrypt": "^5.0.1",
"cloudinary": "^1.25.1",
"connect-mongo": "^3.2.0",
"dotenv": "^8.2.0",
"ejs": "^3.1.6",
"express": "^4.17.1",
"express-flash": "^0.0.2",
"express-session": "^1.17.1",
"method-override": "^3.0.0",
"mongodb": "^3.6.5",
"mongoose": "^5.12.3",
"morgan": "^1.10.0",
"multer": "^1.4.2",
"nodemon": "^2.0.7",
"passport": "^0.4.1",
"passport-local": "^1.0.0",
"postcss": "^8.2.13",
"tailwindcss": "^2.1.2",
"validator": "^13.6.0"