💬 Mini message board
A lightweight message board made with MongoDB, Express, React, and NodeJS.
📚 Libraries and tools used
Frontend
Backend
- Node: Backend environment.
- Express: Requests management
- Mongoose: MongoDB connection and object modeling
- CORS: Library to allow CORS
- Nodemon (dev): Library to hot reload the server on change
Database
- MongoDB: A NoSQL database
Deployment
- Docker: Project bundler in OS-level virtualization containers to work in any environment
⚙️ Run the app
Default ports:
- Backend:
8000 - Frontend:
3000 - MongoDB:
27017
Option 1 (recommended): 🐳 Docker
Download the source code
git clone https://github.com/alesbe/mini-message-board.git
cd mini-message-board
Run Docker Compose
docker-compose up
Option 2: Run the project yourself
You'll need 3 different terminals, because each part works individually and does not support detached mode without docker.
1.- Setup database
Download mongodb and start the process
mongod
2.- Download the source code
git clone https://github.com/alesbe/mini-message-board.git
cd mini-message-board
3.- Setup backend server
Go to server folder and install dependencies
cd server
npm install
Then, start the server
node server.js
4.- Setup frontend
Go to project root folder and cd into client, then, install dependencies
cd client
npm install
Then, start the client
npm start
