README.md

Introduction

This is a MERN stack project to connect users and showcase their professional profile and engage in discussion in the topics of their choice. It has follwing features:

• Register user (Signup and Login)

• Create profile (add experience, add education, add social links, general profile)

• Edit profile and delete account

• View profile of other users

• Add, delete personal posts

• Like, comment other user posts

  Project is hosted on heroku. To explore the live version of project click on the link https://idevconnect.herokuapp.com/

Snapshots

Tech Stack

• MongoDB => NoSQL Database
• ExpressJs => Web Framework for NodeJs
• ReactJs => JavaScript library for front end
• NodeJs => JavaScript runtime environment

Project Architecture

• client => contains Reactjs code for frontend
• config => contains keys and secret for connecting database
• models => contains database models
• routes => contains RESTful api/ end routes

Run on localhost using docker

To run the project on localhost follow the given steps in root directory.

1. Create a new cluster at Mongodb atlas. For this follow this guide.

2. Connect the new cluster using this guide

3. Create the file keys_dev.js using format as given below in server/config directory.

   cd server/config && touch keys_dev.js

4. Write the following code in keys_dev.js and replace data inside quotation marks.

   module.exports = {
     mongoURI: "YOUR_MONGODB_DATABASE_URL",
     secretOrKey: "SOME_INSANELY_SECRET_KEY_OF_YOUR_CHOICE", //For JWT payload token
   };

5. Download Docker for your system from here

6. Inside root directory use the following command to run the project.

   docker-compose up

Other Instructions

1. If you change any docker-compose.yml, nginx configuration, package.json file then use following command to build and run the images.

   docker-compose up --build

Deploy on Heroku

• Download git
• Download heroku-cli
• Follow the given guide