boykoc / reactnd-readable

A React content and comment web app. This is project 2 from Udacity's React NanoDegree course.

Readable API Server

This is the front and backend of the Redux portion of udacity's React nano degree.

Start Developing and Testing

To get started:

• Install and start the API server
  • cd api-server
  • npm install
  • node server
• In another terminal window, install and start the Readables frontent (based on a Create React App project)
  • cd frontend
  • npm install
  • npm start

Frontend

Information about the frontend and how to use it can be found in its README file.

API Server

Information about the API server and how to use it can be found in its README file.

Access The API Server

To accesss the backend server in your code, we have stored the URL to the API server in the environment variable REACT_APP_BACKEND which you can access in your code using process.env.REACT_APP_BACKEND. You can see this in action in frontend/src/App.js in componentDidMount.