yasamnoya / picterest

Repository for freeCodeCamp backend certificate

🖼 Post your Pics, then get everyone's like

Tech Used

Backend

• Express - web framework for Node.js
• sequelize - ODM for RDBMS
• Passport - authentication middleware for Node.js
• GitHub OAuth - signing in with GitHub accounts

Frontend

• Vue - frontend framework
• Vue router - the official router for Vue.js
• axios - handling ajax requests

Deployment

• Amazon EC2 - hosting both frontend & backend of the application
• ElephantSQL - hosting the database
• NGINX - web server as a reverse proxy

Setup

1. Clone this repository.
2. Create the environment files

• Create .env under server/, sample as below:

PORT=3000
FRONTEND_URL=http://localhost:8080
GITHUB_CLIENT_ID=<your githu client id>
GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET=<your github client secret>
SESSION_SECRET=some_secret

DB_NAME=<your db name>
DB_HOSTNAME=<host of your db>
DB_USERNAME=<db username>
DB_PASSWORD=<db password>

• Create .env.localunder client/, sample as below:

VUE_APP_BASE_URL=/
VUE_APP_BACKEND_URL=http://localhost:3000/api/
VUE_APP_GITHUB_CLIENT_ID=<your github client id>

3. Start the server for development purpose:

cd server && npm run dev
cd client && npm run serve

4. Start the server for production:

cd server && npm run start
cd client && npm run build

Then serve the files under ciient/dist/ with a http server, i.e. NGINX.

License

MIT