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A small social network for developers built with the MERN stack. Includes authentication using JWT web tokens. The app uses Redux for client-side state management.

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TODO

• Better Logging
• Fetch Popular Github Repos

Technologies Used

• MongoDB
• ExpressJS
• ReactJS
• NodeJS

Quick Start

Add a default.json file in config folder with the following

{
  "mongoURI": "<your_mongoDB_Atlas_uri_with_credentials>",
  "jwtSecret": "secret",
  "githubToken": "<yoursecrectaccesstoken>"
}

Install server dependencies

npm install

Install client dependencies

cd client
npm install

Run both Express & React from root

npm run dev

Build for production

cd client
npm run build

Test production before deploy

NODE_ENV=production node server.js

Created By

Ali Ahmad