Cooking The Books is a web application developed with the MERN stack with the purpose of providing people with a quick, reliable source of recipes based on the ingredients that they have available. No saving and updating your inventory. No nonsense.
This project uses Node.js, npm, MongoDB, React, and is configured to deploy to Azure. After cloning the repository, run npm install in both the root directory, as well as the /client directory to ensure all dependencies are installed.
After installation, create an environment variable DB_CONN containing the MongoDB connection link. For more information on doing this, check this link. This is currently set to work with MongoDB Atlas, however the Mongoose connection in the /server/db-conn.js file can be configured for other platforms. This project assumes a collection recipes exists already in the database, but this can be configured in the Mongoose Recipe model definition.
After dependency installation and database connection configuration is complete, simply running node server.js to run the Express server. This will launch at localhost:3001 and will output confirmation on server startup and successful database connection.
The /client directory contains the front end React application. Run npm start from this location to start the create-react-app development environment.
Pull requests will be accepted after May 31, 2020.
This project is the work of John Afana, Ryan Hiller, and Daniel Reuter for the Spring 2020 Technical Software Project class at MSU Denver.
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