jasonmb626/job_dashboard

Keep track of jobs applied for, when to followup, and with whom.

Job Dashboard

Keep track of jobs applied for, when to followup, and with whom.

This project allowed the author to practice building a basic (and then slightly beyond basic) full stack CRUD application using the MERN stack, and then debug and refactor during use/testing.

Installation

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/jasonmb626/job_dashboard.git

Install the dependencies. Make sure you have Node.JS installed first.

cd job_dashboard
npm i

Edit config/default.json with your MongoDB URI connection string and make up your own jwtSecret.

Replace and appropriately. You can download MongoDB Server for use locally or host this in the cloud for free (in development) with MongoDB Atlas.

{
  "mongoURI": "mongodb+srv://<user>:<password>@cluster0-qmira.mongodb.net/jobsgi",
  "jwtSecret": "<secret>"
}

Run locally

npm run dev

Register a new user & begin using the service.