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A MERN Stack Social Media App for Developer Community
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Table of Contents

1. About The Project
   • Built With
2. Getting Started
   • Prerequisites
   • Installation
3. Contributing
4. License
5. Contact
6. Acknowledgements

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About The Project

As a developer networking is matter. Why it's matter ?

• We work in teams
• We share our work
• We share our exprerience

and we do many things where networking is important and Outreach is providing platform for meeting new people around the world

The main aim for building this app was to learn MERN stack

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Built With

This project use morden techonology for web development.

• React
• Redux
• Node.js
• Express
• MongoDB
• CSS

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Getting Started

Prerequisites

This app is using MERN Stack so for getting started with this code you need some basic knowledge

• ES 6 Concept
• React Components
• React Hooks
• Node JS
• Express JS
• MongoDB

Installation

Add a default.json file in config folder with the following

{
  "mongoURI": "<your_mongoDB_Atlas_uri_with_credentials>",
  "jwtSecret": "secret",
  "githubToken": "<yoursecrectaccesstoken>"
}

Install server dependencies

npm install

Install client dependencies

cd client
npm install

Run both Express & React from root

npm run dev

Build for production

cd client
npm run build

Test production before deploy

After running a build in the client 👆, cd into the root of the project.
And run...

Linux/Unix

NODE_ENV=production node server.js

Windows Cmd Prompt or Powershell

$env:NODE_ENV="production"
node server.js

Check in browser on http://localhost:5000/

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Contributing

Contributions are what make the open source community such an amazing place to be learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.

1. Fork the Project
2. Create your Feature Branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)
3. Commit your Changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature')
4. Push to the Branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)
5. Open a Pull Request

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License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.

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Contact

Ashish Patel - @ashishxcode - ashishxcode@gmail.com

Project Link: https://github.com/ashishxcode/Outreach

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Acknowledgements

• Axios
• Bcryptjs
• Express
• Gravatar
• Jsonwebtoken
• React-icons
• Normalize-url
• Moment
• Redux
• Redux-thunk
• UUID
• MongoDB
• Heroku
• Shields