Writer's Avenue

Writer's Avenue is an open-source blog publishing website with its frontend written in React & Sass, Node.js (Express) for backend and MariaDB for database.

As of now, the following things are implemented:

• user can register/login with their email or Google account (OAuth 2.0)
• if a user doesn't upload an avatar while registering, a default avatar will be set
• users can create, read, update & delete posts
• view profile of other users 👀
• users can post comments on posts
• can save drafts instead of directly publishing the posts
• user can edit a published post & save those changes as a draft on the server without affecting the published post 😌

How to run this project locally

Note: these steps are tested on Linux (Pop OS) with Node v16.16.0 & MariaDB server v10.6.11.

1. make sure Node, NPM, Yarn & MariaDB are installed.

2. there are 3 dotenvs:

   • dummy.env
   • server/dummy.env
   • client/dummy.env

   read them, populate them with proper values & rename those files from dummy.env to just .env.

3. install dependencies by executing yarn in project's root directory & also in client & server directores.

4. execute this in project's root directory:

   yarn setup
   

5. execute this in server directory:

   yarn dev
   

6. execute this in client directory:

   yarn dev
   

7. play around with this project & say good things to reward me with some dopamine 😌