nemgreene/herokuDeployTemplate

Deploy-mern

This repository is part of a tutorial to deploy a MERN application using Heroku. You can read more about it in the blog post. It contains a basic full-stack application which allows users to submit a quote with a form. All the quotes will be displayed in the web application.

Table of contents

• Project structure
• API endpoints
• Getting started

Project structure

• client/src:
  • components : React components for the user interface
  • pages
• index.js : point of entry, also known as server.
• routes : includes the API end points definition
• models : Mongoose database Schemas

API endpoints

• POST /quotes/post - create a new document containing a quote and the corresponding author.
• GET /quotes/get - get all the quotes from the database.

Getting started

Run the following commands:

$ git clone https://github.com/hawa-bah/deploy-mern
$ npm install
$ cd client
$ npm install

Setting up for deployment

• Make ".env" file
• Add MONGO_STRING

MONGO_STRING = 'mongodb+srv://<username>:<password>@cluster0.1a7yh.mongodb.net/<collectionName>?retryWrites=true&w=majority'