coding-to-music / blogster-mern

Blogster Node App with React, MongoDB, Redis, Google Auth and AWS S3

https://github.com/coding-to-music/blogster-mern

By Roshan Grewal https://github.com/roshangrewal

https://github.com/roshangrewal/blogster-mern

1. Setup

• Clone Repo
• Run npm install
• Create an .env file in project's root directory and add the following properties:

Prop	Value	Description
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID	String	Your AWS access key
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_SECRET	String	Your AWS access key scret
AWS_BUCKET	String	Your AWS S3 Bucket name
AWS_REGION	String	Your AWS S3 Bucket region
GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID	String	Your Google Credential ID
GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET	String	Your Google Credential Secret
MONGO_URI	String	MongoDB connectio URL
APP_COOKIE_KEY	String	Random string to be used with cookies
REDIS_URL	String	Redis instance URL

2. Run Execute npm run dev from CLI. This starts the backend on port 5000 and the React frontend on port 3000, with a proxy from 3000 to 5000

3. Run tests Run npm run test from CLI