About The Project

This is an expansive journalling web application with networking possible, allowing users to publish beautifully crafted entries as blogs easily accessible to their network.

What expansive journalling entails:

• The traditional feeling of journalling is retained with the text component.
• Add snippets of your memories not describable by words in the form of pictures, videos and audios.
• Turn your journal entry into an experience in itself with customisable background images and background audio.
• Collaborate with your friends to create journal entries together in real time.

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Getting Started

Follow these steps to have the application running on your own device

Prerequisites

Install the following prerequisites:

• nodeJS
• mongoDB

Setup your mongoDB database by running mongod. The project will create a database named projectDB.

Installation

1. Clone the repo

   git clone https://github.com/romulan-overlord/Project-1.git

2. Install NPM packages in backend

   cd ./backend
   npm install

3. Start up the backend server

   npm run dev

4. Start up the socket server to allow synchronised editing:

   npm run sync

5. Install NPM packages in frontend

   cd ./frontend
   npm install

6. Start up the frontend server

   npm start

The website will start up on port 3000

Note: Change the url of the ExpressIP constant in settings.js in frontend to your backend server's url.

Screenshots

Concurrent Editing

sync_example.webm

System Layout