tareita / anemay

Anemay

Anemay is a fully-featured social media web application, built with the MERN stack.

Deployed at: https://anemay.herokuapp.com/

Features

• Create, read, update and delete posts
• Like and unlike posts
• Create, reply to, read, update and delete comments
• Markdown for posts and comments
• Sign up and login using JWT for authentication
• View profiles of users and browse through their posts, liked posts and comments
• Update bio which can be viewed by other users
• Fully responsive layout

Installation and usage

1. Clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/tareita/anemay.git

2. Install dependencies

cd anemay  
npm install
cd client
npm install

3. Create .env in root directory

cd ..
touch .env

4. Configure environment variables in your new .env file. To acquire your MONGO_URI, create a cluster for free over at https://www.mongodb.com/. The TOKEN_KEY is a secret key of your choosing, you can generate one at this site: https://randomkeygen.com/.

MONGO_URI=<YOUR_MONGO_URI> 
TOKEN_KEY=<YOUR_TOKEN_KEY>
PORT=4000

5. Run the server

npm run server

6. Start a new terminal and run react's development server

cd anemay
cd client
npm start

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