News sharing and social media website.
Users create posts, follow eachother to view other users' posts, add likes to posts and more.

Live Demo

Front-End Technologies

• React + Hooks and Context API
• Webpack
• Babel
• SASS
• Axios

Back-End Technologies

• Node.js
• MongoDB
• Mongoose
• Express
• Passport.js
• Cloudinary
• Pug

This project was started with the objective to learn:

• Full-stack development with React, Node and MongoDB
• Scalable application architecture
• REST API design, development and best practices
• User sessions and authentication with Passport.js
• Modular and single-responsibility programming patterns
• Programmatic image manipulation and CDN interaction
• Comprehensive client and server-side input validation
• Custom webpack configuration for development and production modes
• CSS-BEM naming and styling methodologies
• Interactive user interface web design
• Multi-themed colour palette design

Installation and Usage

Run locally for development:

1. Install dependencies with npm i or yarn.
2. Copy and rename variables.env.sample to variables.env and populate with values.
3. Ensure your MongoDB server is running (mLab, Atlas or locally with mongod).
4. Ensure your Cloudinary credentials are correct.
5. Run with npm run dev or yarn dev.

API Testing

API debugging and testing is done with Postman.

(or download as JSON)

You will need the following environment variables:

Variable	Example Value
url	http://localhost:8080
apiurl	http://localhost:8080/api

Once the Node and MongoDB servers are up and running as outlined in the installation and usage section then you are ready to consume the API with Postman.