harshsojitra007/SocialMedia-MERN

Table of Contents

• Description
• Technologies
• Tools
• Setup

Description

• A MERN Stack based Social Media platform where a user will be able to upload status of their life, communicate with their friends, react to their posts and so many things.

Technologies

• MERN Stack [NodeJs: v17.9.0]
• Cloudinary API
• React-Redux

Tools

• Git
• VSCode
• MongoDB Compass
• Postman API

.env file

• Before you start your project, please make sure to have .env file at backend/ location.
• your .env file must contain the following parameters

DB_PASS=**password of MongoDB User**
DB_USER=**Name of MongoDB User**

EMAIL_NAME=**Gmail to send E-mails to clients**
EMAIL_PASS=**Password Generated by Google for Nodemailer for the above account**

DEFAULT_PROFILE_PIC=**A public URL to display default picture**

**Below details you have to fill from cloudinary Dashboard by setting up an account**
CLOUD_NAME=**From Dashboard**
CLOUD_API_KEY=**From Dashboard**
CLOUD_SECRET_KEY=**From Dashboard**

Setup

• To run this project, Download the project and install all Dependencies locally using npm i in both folders backend and backend/frontend. Ensure that you're in backend/ directory

npm i
cd frontend
npm i

• Then, start the project with npm start in backend & frontend folders consequently.

Preview of Project