mern-boilerplate

Yet another MERN stack boilerplate

Requirements

1. MongoDB
2. NodeJS + npm

Set up and installation

Frontend

Backend

1. Go to the backend directory of the repository
2. Make keys.secret.js
3. Fill it up with this script

modules.export = {
    mongoURI: <mongoURI here, e.g. "mongodb://123.1.2.3:5678">\
    databaseName: <name of database that the backend will use here, e.g. "activityLog">
    secretOrKey: <key here, e.g. "NoOneWillGuessThisText!">
};

4. execute mongo
5. execute use <name of database> (databaseName that is written in keys.secret.js)
6. CTRL+C to exit out of the mongo client