React Redux Blog

This is a MERN stack based fully functioning blog system, which supports features of signing up, signing up, making authenticated requests, updating profile, changing password, publishing/editing/deleting blog post, making comments, etc.

Live App: https://www.haichaoy.com/

Tech Stack

Front-end

• The front-end client is built as a simple-page-application using React and Redux (for middlewares and reducers).
• React-Router is used for navigation.
• Redux-Thunk is used for processing asynchronous requests.
• Bootstrap 4 is used for page styling.

Back-end

• The back-end server is built with Express.js and Node.js in MVC pattern, which provides completed REST APIs for data interaction.
• Passport.js is used as an authentication middleware in the sever.
• JSON Web Token (JWT) is used for signing in user and making authenticated requests.

Database

• MongoDB is used as the back-end database, which include different data models/schemas (i.e., User, Post and Comment).
• Mongoose is used to access the MongoDB for CRUD actions (create, read, update and delete).

Usage

Running locally you need 3 terminals open: one for client, one for server, and another one for MongoDB back-end. Below are the steps:

1. Install Node.js;
2. Install MongoDB;
3. git clone https://github.com/haichao-yu/react-redux-blog.git;
4. Go to directory client, and run npm install;
5. Go to directory server, and run npm install;
6. In one terminal, run mongod;
7. In server directory, run npm run dev;
8. In client directory, run npm run start;

Then you are all set. You can go to http://localhost:3000/ to check you live application.

Proxy

Please refer to this link.