ryanasnan / mern-cms

CMS build with Mongo Express and React

MERN Medium CMS

This is my first app using MERN (Mongo, Express, React, Node) app

Configuration

Create environment on file config/config.env

NODE_ENV=development
PORT=5000
mongoURI=mongodb://localhost:mern-cms/mern-cms
JWT_SECRET=secret
JWT_EXPIRE=30d
JWT_COOKIE_EXPIRE=30
CLIENT_PUBLIC_PATH=./client/public
FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY=uploads
FILE_IMAGE_DIRECTORY=images
FILE_STATIC_DIRECTORY=static
MAX_FILE_UPLOAD=1000000

Installation

Install both package in server and client

$ npm i
$ cd client
$ npm i

Run Application

Start your mongo service

$ sudo service mongod start

Run dev scripts

$ npm run dev

Dont forget to change the mongoURI if you want to use mongo in another server (exp. mongo atlas)

Seeding (!important)

Seed before use the app (the empty data handler still not created, i will added ASAP)

$ npm run seed-user
$ npm run seed-story

access on your chrome localhost:3000 PROFIT!!!

Deploy note

If you want to deploy this app, just change the node env from development to production and the client public path from ./client/public to ./client/build

NODE_ENV=production
CLIENT_PUBLIC_PATH=./client/build