🌐 MERN Stack

MongoDB, Expressjs, React/Redux, Nodejs

MERN is a fullstack implementation in MongoDB, Expressjs, React/Redux, Nodejs.

MERN stack is the idea of using Javascript/Node for fullstack web development.

clone or download

$ git clone https://github.com/amazingandyyy/mern.git
$ npm i

project structure

LICENSE
package.json
server/
   package.json
   .env (to create .env, check [prepare your secret session])
client/
   package.json
...

Usage (run fullstack app on your machine)

Prerequisites

MongoDB
Node ^10.0.0
npm

notice, you need client and server runs concurrently in different terminal session, in order to make them talk to each other

Client-side usage(PORT: 3000)

$ cd client   // go to client folder
$ npm i       // npm install packages
$ npm run dev // run it locally

// deployment for client app
$ npm run build // this will compile the react code using webpack and generate a folder called docs in the root level
$ npm run start // this will run the files in docs, this behavior is exactly the same how gh-pages will run your static site

Server-side usage(PORT: 8000)

Prepare your secret

run the script at the first level:

(You need to add a JWT_SECRET in .env to connect to MongoDB)

// in the root level
$ echo "JWT_SECRET=YOUR_JWT_SECRET" >> ./server/src/.env

Start

$ cd server   // go to server folder
$ npm i       // npm install packages
$ npm run dev // run it locally
$ npm run build // this will build the server code to es5 js codes and generate a dist file

Deploy Server to Heroku

$ npm i -g heroku
$ heroku login
...
$ heroku create
$ npm run heroku:add <your-super-amazing-heroku-app>
// remember to run this command in the root level, not the server level, so if you follow the documentation along, you may need to do `cd ..`
$ pwd
/Users/<your-name>/mern
$ npm run deploy:heroku

After creating heroku

remember to update the file of client/webpack.prod.js

 'API_URI': JSON.stringify('https://your-super-amazing-heroku-app.herokuapp.com')

Dependencies(tech-stacks)

Client-side	Server-side
axios: ^0.15.3	bcrypt-nodejs: ^0.0.3
babel-preset-stage-1: ^6.1.18	body-parser: ^1.15.2
lodash: ^3.10.1	cors: ^2.8.1
react: ^16.2.0	dotenv: ^2.0.0
react-dom: ^16.2.0	express: ^4.14.0
react-redux: ^4.0.0	jwt-simple: ^0.5.1
react-router-dom: ^4.2.2	mongoose: ^4.7.4
redux: ^3.7.2	morgan: ^1.7.0
redux-thunk: ^2.1.0