Blog, created to read and share articles about a variety of topics.

https://dm-topicks.herokuapp.com/

• CRUD functionality for posts
• CRUD functionality for comments
• User dashboard
• User posts management
• User comments management
• Upload profile image
• Rich text editor
• Filter posts by topics
• Search posts
• Like posts
• Save post for later

Client: React, MobX, Bootstrap

Server: Node, Express , MongoDB

To run this project, you will need to add the following environment variables to your .env file

NODE_ENV = development

MONGO_URI = your mongodb URI

JWT_SECRET = your JWT SECRET

REACT_APP_TINYMCE_API_KEY = your tinyMCE API key

REACT_APP_CLOUD_NAME = your cloud name on cloudinary

REACT_APP_CLOUDINARY_UPLOAD_PRESET = your upload preset on cloudinary

Clone the project

  git clone https://github.com/danimatuko/topicks.git

Install dependencies (frontend & backend)

npm install
cd client
npm install

Run frontend (:3000) & backend (:5000)

npm run dev

Run frontend only (:3000)

npm run client

Run backend only (:5000)

npm run server

Create frontend prod build

cd client  
npm run build

There is a Heroku postbuild script, so if you push to Heroku, no need to build manually for deployment to Heroku

Open postman and import the topicks.postman_collection.json file from server/topicks.postman_collection.json