/agora

Full Stack MERN application - Backend

Primary LanguageJavaScript

Agora

Server - backend code

Full Stack Social media app using REST API built with Node.JS in the backend and React.JS in the frontend. Database is MongoDB Atlas.

Business Requirements

Our application named Agora will power a fullstack social media app that will allow our users to create and share posts, follow people, like posts and browse all posts on the timeline.

Key features

  • Mongo DB: create, update, delete our collections

  • register and login autentication

  • users router: get, update delete methods

  • follow and unfollow users

  • create posts, update, delete, like and dislike

  • fetch all timeline posts

Technical requirements

  • express(node.js framework- server will run in there)
  • mongoose(helps create mongo models)
  • helmet(help make requests to server)
  • morgan(login middleware)
  • mongoDB Atlas
  • bcrypt (hash passwords before saving it into db)
  • multer (to save images into server when user uploads an image)
  • path (to direct images into public folder on server side)

Link to Frontend Repo

Setup

  1. Clone down this repo locally.

  2. Add .env file with MONGODB= varaible. Add your mongoDB URI to connect to your DB.

  3. in the terminal, type npm i to install all npm packages.

  4. Turn on server on local machine using nodemon index.js command.

  5. Server will run on port 8800. To change port number, go to index.js file.