Medium Clone

A clone of the popular blogging platform Medium, built with Node.js for the backend and React for the frontend.

Table of Contents

• Features
• Installation
• Usage
• Folder Structure
• Contributing

Features

• User authentication
• Create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) articles
• Follow and unfollow users
• Comment on articles

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/SarveshK16/medium-clone.git

2. Navigate to the project directory:

   cd medium-clone

3. Install dependencies for backend and frontend:

   cd backend
   npm install
   cd ../frontend
   npm install

Usage

1. Start the backend server:

   cd backend
   npm start

2. Start the frontend development server:

   cd frontend
   npm start

3. Open your browser and navigate to http://localhost:3000.

Folder Structure

medium-clone/
├── backend/
│   ├── config/
│   ├── controllers/
│   ├── models/
│   ├── routes/
│   └── ...
├── frontend/
│   ├── public/
│   ├── src/
│   └── ...
├── common/
│   └── ...
└── README.md

Contributing

1. Fork the repository.
2. Create a new branch (git checkout -b feature/your-feature).
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some feature').
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/your-feature).
5. Open a Pull Request.