DevSpace

Social network for developers

Technologies Used

• ReactJs
• Bootstrap
• Figma
• MongoDB
• Express
• Node.js
• VSCode
• Postman

Things Learned

• Learned about React and its working.
• Refactoring Code and keeping the code clean.
• Learned about making API calls to backend and displaying data.
• Authentication and Authorization using JWT.
• Created REST APIs using express.
• Validation using validator.js and passport.js
• Learned about state management using Redux and redux toolkit.
• Hashing passwords using bcrypt.js

Setting up DevSpace

Prerequisites

Node.js

Before you can start working on DevSpace, you need to have Node.js installed on your machine. The currently supported versions are 10.15.0 or greater.

To download Node.js visit https://nodejs.org/en/download/.

NOTE: You can use a tool like NVM or N to install and manage multiple node versions

Verify Prerequisites

You can verify your setup by running the following commands in your terminal:

$ node -v

Install Dependencies

Once you have Node.js and yarn installed on your machine and have validated that you are running the proper version, you can set up the development environment by running the following at the root of DevSpace:

$ npm i
$ cd client
$ npm i

Running devSpace on your local server

To run the project locally, run the following command at the root of DevSpace:

$ npm run dev

Note: This project is still under development, some features may not work yet. Thank you!