DevExchange

DevExchange (might be a little slow to load)

A small social network for developers

• app website: https://devexchange.herokuapp.com
• source code: https://github.com/xingchenzhao/DevExchange
• This is an in depth full stack(MERN Stack) social network application(DevExchange) using Node.js, Express, React, Redux and MongoDB along with JavaScript ES6+.

Personal Side Project

• Building an extensive backend API with Node.js & Express
• Protecting routes/endpoints with JWT (JSON Web Tokens)
• Extensive API testing with Postman
• Integrating React with the backend in an elegant way, creating a great workflow
• Building the frontend to work with API
• Using Redux for app state management
• Creating reducers and actions for the resoureces
• Creating many container components that integrate with Redux
• Testing with the Redux Chrome extension
• Creating a build script, securing the keys and deploy to Heroku using git.

Quick Start

#change default.json file (config/default.json)
#add uri of your own mongodb connection. For example "mongoURI": " mongodb://localhost/dev-exchange"

# Install server dependencies
npm install

# Install client dependencies
cd client
npm install

# Run both Express & React from root
npm run dev

# Build for production
cd client
npm run build