yasamnoya/book-exchange-app

Repository for freeCodeCamp backend certificate

📚 Turn the old book into useful ones.

Tech Used

• Express - web framework for Node.js
• mongoose - ODM for MongoDB
• Passport - authentication middleware for Node.js
• GitHub OAuth - signing in with GitHub accounts

Deployment

• Amazon EC2 - hosting both frontend & backend of the application
• MongoDB Atlas - hosting the database
• NGINX - web server as a reverse proxy

Setup

1. Clone this repository.
2. Create .env files, .envs/prod.env for production and .envs/dev.env for development. Sample as below:

PORT=3000
MONGODB_URL=mongodb://localhost:27017/book-exchange
GITHUB_CLIENT_ID=<your github client id>
GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET=<your github client secret>
SESSION_SECRET=secret
FRONTEND_URL=http://localhost:8080
BACKEND_URL=http://localhost:3000

3. Start the server:

• For development: npm run dev
• For production: npm run start

4. See this repo for the frontend of this application.

License

MIT