bertearazvan/friends_and_posts_react_node

Friends, posts and news project

This is a project for the Node React module

Overview

The project contains two folders:

• Client - Front-end
• Server - Backend

Server

The server side represents the Back-end part which is built with Node.js and Express.

Please make sure you have the following services installed on your local machine:

• Node.js
• MySQL
• Knex
  • In order to install knex open your CLI and run npm install knex -g

In order to start working with our project you need to follow these steps:

1. Navigate to the server folder with your preffered CLI.
2. Log in into your local mysql database using your preffered CLI.
   • Log in with mysql -u yourUsernameHere -p
   • Create a database for the current project by running CREATE DATABASE yourDBname;
   • run exit;
3. Navigate to /server/config and create a file called "db_credentials.js" and follow the template from the "db_credentials_template.js" by inserting the previously set database name, your username and password.
4. My platform also includes sending emails with Gmail. Please follow these steps.
   • Create a dummy gmail account and set the Less Secure option to be true.
   • Navigate to /server/config and create a file called "smtp_credentials.js" and follow the template from the "smtp_credentials_template.js" by inserting your gmail account credentials. This represent the email you will send the emails from when the users will use the Reset Password feature of the app.
5. Navigate to back /server and run npm install.
6. After everything is installed, make sure you are in /server folder and run the following commands:
   • Migrations: npm run m:latest or if you want to rollback the migrations npm run m:rollback
   • Seeds: npm run s:run
7. After everything is done you can run npm run start-dev in order to start the development server. You should see in console something similar to Server is listening on port 9090 ...

Client

The client side represents the Front-end part which is built with React.

In order to start working with our project you need to follow these steps:

1. Navigate to the /client folder with your preffered CLI.
2. Run npm install
3. Run npm run start

A new browser window should pop-up where you can see the project.