Music Blog app

Blog/social network style web app prototype. Made only for some educational purposes.

Features

• Create/delete posts;
• Data stored on MongoDB, mlab.com online hosted database;
• Image files stored in Cloudinary cloud storage and auto resized;
• Search, multi-step post add form, rich-text input form, image slider and other cool features!;

Tech

• Node/Express REST API based back-end;
• Multer/Cloudinary setup for image cloud storage;
• ReactJS based front-end;
• Material Design and Bootstrap 4 framework elements and animations;

Installation

Create .env file for environment variables in main directory:

MONGO_URI=mongodb://user:xxxxxxxx3@ds74415.mlab.com:12345/project01    //mlab DB example for data storage
CLOUD_NAME='xxxxxx'     //Cloudinary API info
API_KEY='xxxxxxxxxxxx'      
API_SECRET='_xxxxxxxxxxxx'

Node modules and React client install

npm install
npm run client-install

Start

npm run dev