FULL STACK BLOG

Jay Sun, Lio Zhang, Sofia Li

Setup

To run the code, in the first terminal

$ cd Frontend
$ npm install (to install frontend-side dependencies)
$ npm run  start (to start the frontend)

In the second terminal

• cd Backend and Set environment variables in config.env under ./config
• Create your mongoDB connection url, which you'll use as your MONGO_URI
• Supply the following credentials

#  ---  Config.env  ---

NODE_ENV = development
PORT =5000
URI =http://localhost:3000
MONGO_URI =
JWT_SECRET_KEY =
JWT_EXPIRE = 60m
RESET_PASSWORD_EXPIRE = 3600000 

# Nodemailer

SMTP_HOST =smtp.gmail.com
SMTP_PORT =587
EMAIL_USERNAME = example@gmail.com
EMAIL_PASS = your_password

# --- Terminal ---

$ npm install (to install backend-side dependencies)
$ npm start (to start the backend)

Key Functionality

• User registration and login
• Authentication using JWT Tokens
• Story searching and pagination
• CRUD operations (Story create, read, update and delete)
• Upload user ımages and story ımages to the server
• Liking stories and adding stories to the Reading list
• Commenting on the story
• Skeleton loading effect
• Responsive Design