Project: DevSpace

Live Demo: https://ahad-devspace.herokuapp.com/

About

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This project was a full stack application that utilizes the MERN (MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js) stack to create a social networking application (like MySpace) but excusively for developers. Users can sign up for an account, create a developer profile/portfolio, share posts and get help from other developers.

Key Learnings

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This project helped me gain experience with designing and developing a full stack project using the MERN stack. Some practical concepts I explored included ES6 syntax, Asynchronous JavaScript, creating responsive frontend views with state management using React, Bootstrap, Redux and creating a RESTful API that reads and writes data to a cloud database using Node.js, Express, MongoDB/Mongoose/Atlas, Postman and more.

Usage

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Live Demo

To tinker with the code and start your own localhost server, simply clone repository and then you need to set a default.json file under the config folder to set up the config variables as shown below

{
  "mongoURI": "<your_mongodb_uri>",
  "jwtSecret": "<yoursecret>",
  "githubToken": "<yoursecrectaccesstoken>"
}

and then type

npm install
cd client
npm install

to install all necessary node modules as specified in package.json and then

npm run dev

to run both the backend (on localhost:5000) and the frontend (on localhost:3000).