🐣 Node Express/MongoDB + React/Redux App - Zwitter

A basic clone of Twitter (Boilerplate App) using - Node, Express, MongoDB, React and Redux using create-react-app with separate API (express+mongo) and Frontend (react+redux) folders. Uses Google's Material Design UI (material-ui package).

📝 Features

▶️ Running

Clone repo git clone git@github.com:atulmy/node-express-react-redux-zwitter.git zwitter
Install NPM modules for api cd api and npm install
Install NPM modules for frontend cd frontend and npm install
Run api server cd api and npm start (runs on port configured under api/src/config/index.js)
Run frontend server cd frontend and npm start (runs on port 3000 or your PORT environment, should automatically open in your browser)

📦 Packages Used

API

bcrypt (Library to help you hash passwords)
body-parser (Parse incoming request bodies)
cookie-parser (Parse Cookie header)
express (Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework)
jsonwebtoken (JSON Web Token implementation)
lodash (Modular utilities)
moment (Parse, validate, manipulate, and display dates)
mongoose (MongoDB object modeling tool)

Frontend

classnames (A simple utility for conditionally joining classNames together)
immutability-helper (Mutate a copy of data without changing the original source)
material-ui (React Components that Implement Google's Material Design)
moment (Parse, validate, manipulate, and display dates)
react (Library for building user interfaces)
react-addons-css-transition-group (React CSSTransitionGroup add-on)
react-dom (React package for working with the DOM)
react-redux (Official React bindings for Redux)
react-router-dom (v4, A complete routing library for React)
react-tap-event-plugin (Facebook's TapEventPlugin)
redux (Predictable state container for JavaScript apps)
redux-devtools-extension (Redux DevTools extension)
redux-thunk (Thunk middleware for Redux)

📸 Screenshots

🏗 Core Structure

zwitter
  ├── api (api.example.com)
  │   ├── src
  │   │   ├── config
  │   │   ├── models
  │   │   ├── routes
  │   │   ├── server.js
  │   │   └── index.js
  │   │
  │   └── package.json
  │
  ├── frontend (example.com)
  │   ├── public
  │   ├── src
  │   │   ├── actions
  │   │   ├── components
  │   │   ├── reducers
  │   │   ├── app.js
  │   │   └── index.js
  │   │
  │   └── package.json
  │
  ├── .gitignore
  └── README.md

⭐️ Resources

What is React.js and Why I recommend it to other JavaScript Developers? (LinkedIn post)
Container Components (Medium article)
Thinking in Redux (when all you’ve known is MVC) (Medium article)
CRUD with Redux (Youtube playlist)
React Router v4 (Youtube video)
React Component Patterns by Michael (Youtube video)
Universal JavaScript Web Applications with React - Luciano Mammino (Advance topic, Youtube video)
Break Down Isomorphic and Universal Boilerplate: React-Redux server rendering (Advance topic, Medium article)
Collection of bunch of interesting React videos and related topic (Youtube playlist)
Start learning by looking at sample codes: #LearnByExamples

🎩 Author

Atul Yadav - GitHub • Twitter

📜 License

The MIT License (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php)

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

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