About

This application is a social platform for sharing posts.

Users can sign up, log in, add a profile photo, create a written post, upload a photo, comment and like other posts and like comments

Technologies

Here's an overview of the technologies used to build this application.

• MongoDB
• Express
• React
• Node.js
• Bootstrap
• Jest
• Cypress

Quickstart

Set up your project

1. Clone this repo

git clone https://github.com/sarahdavies186/acebook-water.git

2. Install NPM dependencies

; cd api
; npm install
; cd ../frontend
; npm install

3. Install MongoDB

brew tap mongodb/brew
brew install mongodb-community@5.0

4. Start MongoDB

brew services start mongodb-community@5.0

Start

1. Start the server

; cd api
; JWT_SECRET=SUPER_SECRET npm start

2. Start the front end

In a new terminal session...

; cd frontend
; npm start

Browse to http://localhost:3000/signup to create a new user.

Then, after signing up, you should be able to log in by going to http://localhost:3000/login.

Testing

The Backend (API)

Note the use of an environment variable for the JWT secret

Start the server in test mode (so that it connects to the test DB)

; cd api
; JWT_SECRET=SUPER_SECRET npm run start:test

Then run the tests in a new terminal session

; cd api
; JWT_SECRET=SUPER_SECRET npm run test

The frontend (React)

Note the use of an environment variable for the JWT secret

Start the server in test mode (so that it connects to the test DB)

; cd api
; JWT_SECRET=SUPER_SECRET npm run start:test

Then start the front end in a new terminal session

; cd frontend
; JWT_SECRET=SUPER_SECRET npm start

Then run the tests in a new terminal session

; cd frontend
; JWT_SECRET=SUPER_SECRET npm run test

Demo

Contributors

This was a group project, created by:

• Sarah Davies
• Dilan Patel
• Ayoub El-Hamdoon
• Keremet Sultanalieva
• Sonjay Kumar

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