mikatalk

Pre-requisites

Please install the following:

• npm OR yarn
• MongoDB (or use MongoDB cloud)

I will use npm for the following instructions, you may replace it with yarn if that is your preference (or bun if you're using that).

Installation instructions

First git clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/wanony/mikatalk-site

Following this, cd into the backend directory and create the .env file.

Example .env file without any values:

MONGODB_URL=
JWT_SECRET=
COOKIE_SECRET=
PORT=

Populate these values appropriately.

Following this install the node modules for the backend directory with the following command:

npm i

Then cd to the frontend directory:

cd ../frontend/

And again install the node modules:

npm i

Running the project

Open two terminal windows and cd into the frontend and backend directories, then run in each:

npm run dev