Wanderlust - Your Ultimate Travel Blog 🌍✈️

WanderLust is a simple MERN travel blog website ✈ This project is aimed to help people to contribute in open source, upskill in react and also master git.

🎯 Goal of this project

At its core, this project embodies two important aims:

Start Your Open Source Journey: It's aimed to kickstart your open-source journey. Here, you'll learn the basics of Git and get a solid grip on the MERN stack and I strongly believe that learning and building should go hand in hand.
React Mastery: Once you've got the basics down, a whole new adventure begins of mastering React. This project covers everything, from simple form validation to advanced performance enhancements. And I've planned much more cool stuff to add in the near future if the project hits more number of contributors.

I'd love for you to make the most of this project - it's all about learning, helping, and growing in the open-source world.

Setting up the project locally

Setting up the Backend

Fork and Clone the Repository

git clone https://github.com/{your-username}/wanderlust.git

Navigate to the Backend Directory
```
cd backend
```
Install Required Dependencies
```
npm i
```
Set up your MongoDB Database
- Open MongoDB Compass and connect MongoDB locally at mongodb://localhost:27017.
Import sample data

To populate the database with sample posts, you can copy the content from the backend/data/sample_posts.json file and insert it as a document in the wanderlust/posts collection in your local MongoDB database using either MongoDB Compass or mongoimport.
```
mongoimport --db wanderlust --collection posts --file ./data/sample_posts.json --jsonArray
```
Configure Environment Variables
```
cp .env.sample .env
```

Start the Backend Server

npm start

You should see the following on your terminal output on successful setup.
[BACKEND] Server is running on port 5000
[BACKEND] Database connected: mongodb://127.0.0.1/wanderlust

Setting up the Frontend

Open a New Terminal
```
cd frontend
```
Install Dependencies
```
npm i
```
Configure Environment Variables
```
cp .env.sample .env.local
```
Launch the Development Server
```
npm run dev
```

🌟 Ready to Contribute?

Kindly go through CONTRIBUTING.md to understand everything from setup to contributing guidelines.

💖 Show Your Support

If you find this project interesting and inspiring, please consider showing your support by starring it on GitHub! Your star goes a long way in helping me reach more developers and encourages me to keep enhancing the project.

🚀 Feel free to get in touch with me for any further queries or support, happy to help :)

sabanuzhat/wanderlust