FirstLight - A positive news initiative

About

Many people have experienced the feeling of waking up fresh and vibrant in the morning but then being greeted with negative news on nearly all news websites, papers, and apps. This negative news has a great impact on their mental health, causing stress and anxiety and various other mental illnesses

FirstLight is an application that aims to provide people with positive news to make their day better. FirstLight ensures its users always receive news that carries a positive tone. This is an effort to ensure a healthy and productive mind which in turn leads to a person’s holistic growth.


Installation

Clone to your local repo


git clone git@github.com:FirstLight-A-positive-news-initiative/Backend.git

Install dependencies


npm install

Setting up env

Make .env folder in root directory of this project and enter the following values

MONGO_USER=<your_user>
MONGO_PASSWORD=<your_password>

Running app

Run following command to open server in nodemon.

npm start