🌐 MERN Social Media App

MongoDB, Expressjs, React/Redux, Nodejs

MERN is a fullstack implementation in MongoDB, Expressjs, React/Redux, Nodejs.

MERN stack is the idea of using Javascript/Node for fullstack web development.

clone or download

$ https://github.com/musasahinkundakci/Social-Media-App-Mern
$ npm i

project structure

LICENSE
package.json
server/
   package.json
   .env (to create .env, check [prepare your secret session])
client/
   package.json
...

Usage (run fullstack app on your machine)

Prerequisites

• MongoDB
• Node ^10.0.0
• npm

notice, you need client and server runs concurrently in different terminal session, in order to make them talk to each other

Client-side usage(PORT: 3000)

$ cd client   // go to client folder
$ npm i       // npm install packages
$ npm run dev // run it locally

// deployment for client app
$ npm run build // this will compile the react code using webpack and generate a folder called docs in the root level
$ npm run start // this will run the files in docs, this behavior is exactly the same how gh-pages will run your static site

Server-side usage(PORT: 5000)

Start

$ cd server   // go to server folder
$ npm i       // npm install packages
$ npm run dev // run it locally
$ npm run build // this will build the server code to es5 js codes and generate a dist file

Deploy Server to Heroku

$ npm i -g heroku
$ heroku login
...
$ heroku create
$ npm run heroku:add <your-super-amazing-heroku-app>
// remember to run this command in the root level, not the server level, so if you follow the documentation along, you may need to do `cd ..`
$ pwd
/Users/<your-name>/mern
$ npm run deploy:heroku