MERN Demo Project

This project acts as a demo to test out the MERN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, React, Node.js).

This webapp will allow a user to create and delete goals.

This project was based off the MERN stack video series from Traversy Media

Installation

1. Run the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/bvsam/mern-demo.git
cd mern-demo
npm install
cd frontend
npm install

2. In the mern-demo folder, rename the .envexample file to .env
3. Replace "mongodb+srv://YOURMONGOURI" with your own URI in the .env file to connect to your MongoDB cluster (ex: mongodb+srv://USERNAME:PASSWORD@CLUSTER/COLLECTION?retryWrites=true&w=majority)
4. Run npm run dev in the mern-demo folder to start the app