In order to run this project locally, simply fork and clone the repository or download as zip and unzip on your machine.
- Open the project in your prefered code editor.
- Go to terminal -> New terminal (If you are using VS code)
- Split your terminal into two (run the Frontend on one terminal and the Backend on the other terminal)
In the first terminal
$ cd Frontend
$ npm install (to install frontend-side dependencies)
$ npm run start (to start the frontend)
In the second terminal
- cd Backend and Set environment variables in config.env under ./config
- Create your mongoDB connection url, which you'll use as your MONGO_URI
- Supply the following credentials
# --- Config.env ---
NODE_ENV = development
PORT =5000
URI =http://localhost:3000
MONGO_URI =
JWT_SECRET_KEY =
JWT_EXPIRE = 60m
RESET_PASSWORD_EXPIRE = 3600000
# Nodemailer
SMTP_HOST =smtp.gmail.com
SMTP_PORT =587
EMAIL_USERNAME = example@gmail.com
EMAIL_PASS = your_password
# --- Terminal ---
$ npm install (to install backend-side dependencies)
$ npm start (to start the backend)
- User registration and login
- Authentication using JWT Tokens
- Story searching and pagination
- CRUD operations (Story create, read, update and delete)
- Upload user ımages and story ımages to the server
- Liking stories and adding stories to the Reading list
- Commenting on the story
- Skeleton loading effect
- Responsive Design
This project was created using the following technologies.
- React js - JavaScript library that is used for building user interfaces specifically for single-page applications
- React Hooks - For managing and centralizing application state
- react-router-dom - To handle routing
- axios - For making Api calls
- Css - For User Interface
- CK-Editor - Rich Text Editor
- uuid - For random id generator
- React icons - Small library that helps you add icons to your react apps.
- Node js -A runtime environment to help build fast server applications using JS
- Express js -The server for handling and routing HTTP requests
- Mongoose - For modeling and mapping MongoDB data to JavaScript
- express-async-handler - Simple middleware for handling exceptions inside of async express routes and passing them to your express error handlers
- jsonwebtoken - For authentication
- Bcryptjs - For data encryption
- Nodemailer - Send e-mails from Node.js
- Dotenv - Zero Dependency module that loads environment variables
- multer - Node.js middleware for uploading files
- slugify - For encoding titles into a URL-friendly format
- cors - Provides a Connect/Express middleware
- MongoDB - It provides a free cloud service to store MongoDB collections.
