MERN Blog

 

A simple blog website built using MERN stack

 

Table Of Content

• Built Using
• Getting Started
• Environment Variables

Built Using

• ReactJS - JS Library
• NodeJS - Backend Language
• MongoDB - NoSQL Database
• Mongoose - Connection Library Between MongoDB and NodeJS
• JWT - Authentication
• ExpressJS - NodeJS Framework
• TailwindCSS - CSS Framework
• React Router - Client And Server-side Routing
• Axios - HTTP Client

Getting Started

First install the required dependencies:

npm install

Then, run the development server in both backend and frontend folder:

npm run dev

Environment Variables

The dotenv package is a helpful tool when working with sensitive data such as API keys, passwords, and other configuration variables that should not be hard-coded into your code. It allows you to load environment variables from a .env file into Node.js process.env object.

To use dotenv, create a .env file in the root directory of backend folder and define your environment variables in it using the KEY=VALUE syntax. Required variables to be initialized given below:

PORT=3000

MONGO_URI=

JWT_SECRET=

JWT_EXPIRY=

Note: If app didn't work, try restarting backend server.