Jobly

Jobly is a concept app created to mimic the functionality of LinkedIn, a popular job application. Users can create accounts to use the features of the app.

The app is served with a NodeJS backend, Postgres as data storage, and React for the frontend.

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Features

• User account creation required to be able to use the app.
• User authentication and password hashing is done using bcrypt.
• User profile edit/deletion.
• Users can view companies, view open job postings, and apply to job postings.
• Server-side validation using JSON Schema.
• Postgres to store and persist data.

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Using the app

Requirements: NPM, NodeJS, Postgres, Git.

Coming from the project folder cloned locally to your machine, create a local database, Jobly.

$ createdb jobly
$ psql jobly < data.sql

Run the backend locally. Install dependencies.

$ cd backend/
$ npm install
$ npm start

Open a new terminal window. Go to the project directory. Run the frontend locally. Install dependencies

$ cd frontend/
$ npm install
$ npm start

Open your web browser and head to http://localhost:3000/