README.md

Yet Another Social network

A simple social media application with users, posts, likes and comments - developed using React, Node, Express and MongoDB. To get more insights, read this article.

You can find the repository for the Connect(YASN) server here and the Darkrai(Chat) server here.

CONNECT

A YASN exclusively for students of DAIICT!

Development

• You need Node & Yarn to start the development environment. Download them here - Node, Yarn.

• You can setup a .env file in the root of the repository to set the server url (if you don't do this it will default to http://localhost:4848). The file should look like this:

REACT_APP_SERVER_URL=#Darkrai server url
REACT_APP_CONNECT_SERVER_URL=#Connect server url 
REACT_APP_GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID=#Google auth client ID
REACT_APP_CLOUDINARY_CLOUDNAME=#Cloudinary cloud name
REACT_APP_UPLOAD_PRESET=#Cloudinary Upload Preset

• Run the development server using:

yarn start

• For production build:

yarn build

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - Copyright (c) 2020 Hitesh Goyal