friend.ly

A small social media platform that aims to connect people virtually, built using MongoDB, Express, React, and Node.js

Installation

1. Install the dependencies in the main directory by running npm install in the terminal.
2. Create a config.js file in the /server directory with the following content:

module.exports = {
    'MONGO_URI': // YOUR MONGO URI GOES HERE,
    'SECRET_KEY': // YOUR PRIVATE KEY GOES HERE,
    'CLOUD_NAME': // YOUR CLOUD NAME GOES HERE,
    'CLOUD_API_KEY': // YOUR CLOUD API KEY GOES HERE,
    'CLOUD_API_SECRET': // YOUR CLOUD API SECRET GOES HERE
}

⚠️ Note: If you are not using the cloudinary API, please refer to the multer documentation to store file uploads locally. In this case, your config.js file should look like this:

module.exports = {
    'MONGO_URI': // YOUR MONGO URI GOES HERE,
    'SECRET_KEY': // YOUR PRIVATE KEY GOES HERE
}

3. Run the command npm start and the server will automatically install subdirectory dependencies & start the servers.

Demo

Built with

• Node.js
• MongoDB
• React
• Express

Contributing

Feel free to open issues and pull requests :)