This is an example start project for Kickstart Coding MERN MVP projects.
DO NOT use this project in production. It exposes an API to MongoDB without any sort of security. The only purpose of the API is to allow rapid front-end prototyping without much (or any) backend modifications.
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Get the code. You can either download this repo as a tar.gz or zip file, then extract, do a git pull and copy over the files into your project, or fork this project.
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Set-up your MongoDB database. Either set-up an mLab.com database for testing purposes with your team (easiest), or install and configure a local DB.
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Create a ".env.local" file, that contains your credentials.
- This file WILL NOT go into your git repo (because it is in .gitignore). If you will be using the supplied run.sh, it should be in the following format:
export MONGODB_URI='mongodb://USERNAME:PASSWORD@something.com:1234/DB_NAME'
- Where USERNAME and PASSWORD is replaced with an actual username and password on the MongoDB. In the case of mLab, you will have to create a username and password as a separate step.
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NPM install backend:
npm install- NPM install frontend:
cd client
npm installFor local development, use the included "run.sh" Bash script:
bash run.shLook inside the script. Can you understand what it is doing? It's main goal is just to save you the steps of opening up two terminal windows or tabs. You can, however, still do that method, it's up to you.
If you want to use your mLabs database on Heroku, you will need
heroku config:set MONGODB_URI='mongodb://someUser:...'
To ensure Heroku has the right configuration values set (which should occur
after you have done heroku create to make a new Heroku app, and added an
mLabs add-on to allow MonogoDB on Heroku), do a command like the following:
heroku configYou should see MONGODB_URI specified, something like:
MONGODB_URI mongodb://someUser:somePassword@something.com:1234/someDatabaseName
Launching to Heroku is like any other app:
git push heroku master