Gamedia

Social media site for gamers built using React, Node.js, Express.js, and PostgreSQL (PERN stack)

Setup

1. Install Node.js (if you haven't already)
2. Install Postgres (if you haven't already)
3. Clone this app

git clone https://github.com/saifulislamny/gamedia

4. Create a .env file in resulting folder

cd gamedia/
touch .env

5. Provide environment variables in .env (example values are shown below - feel free to have different values)

# Port Number for API
PORT=5000

# Database config
DB_USERNAME=ctp_user
DB_PASSWORD=ctp_pass
DB_DATABASE=Gamedia
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1

Running the app

For local development you will need two terminals open, one for the API and another for the client.

1. Backend terminal

npm install
npm run dev

2. Frontend terminal

cd client/
npm install
npm start

3. Go to http://localhost:PORT for viewing the backend (e.g. http://localhost:5000 if you specified the PORT to be 5000 in your .env file)
4. Go to http://localhost:3000 for viewing the frontend

In production, only a single app is deployed. The react client will build into static files that will be served from the backend.

Improvements

Backend

• More readable code in /api/models/
• Address TODO comments