Thinkify

An Articles,Blogs,views writing App for the community. TechStack Used: Nodejs and MongoDB Fullstack open source blogging application made with MongoDB, Express, React & Nodejs (MERN)

• Configuration and Setup
• Technologies used
  • Frontend
  • Backend
  • Database

Configuration and Setup

In order to run this project locally, simply fork and clone the repository or download as zip and unzip on your machine.

• Open the project in your prefered code editor.
• Go to terminal -> New terminal (If you are using VS code)
• Split your terminal into two (run the Frontend on one terminal and the Backend on the other terminal)

In the first terminal

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

# --- Terminal ---

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

Key Features

• User registration and login
• Authentication using JWT Tokens
• CRUD operations (Story create, read, update and delete)
• Upload user ımages and Article related ımages to the server
• Adding Articles to the Reading list
• Responsive Design

Technologies used

This project was created using the following technologies.

Backend

• Node js -A runtime environment to help build fast server applications using JS
• Express js -The server for handling and routing HTTP requests
• Mongoose - For modeling and mapping MongoDB data to JavaScript
• express-async-handler - Simple middleware for handling exceptions inside of async express routes and passing them to your express error handlers
• jsonwebtoken - For authentication
• Bcryptjs - For data encryption
• cors - Provides a Connect/Express middleware

Database

• MongoDB - It provides a free cloud service to store MongoDB collections.