Hosted on Heroku Here An exploration of the MERN stack, which leverages MongoDB, Express, React and Node.js to create full stack applications for the modern web. I thought that an exploration of the stack was in order, so I built this simple little application that is essentially useless (after all we keep our contacts in our phones mostly) so that I could explore the functionality of the MERN stack.

If you wanted to build or modify the web application, or even just pick it apart to learn how it works, follow the steps below to get a copy running locally (NOTE: requres access to a BASH shell and Node.js installed within the $PATH)

$ git clone https://github.com/Thomashighbaugh/mern-contact-keeper && cd mern-contact-keeper
$ npm i 

$ npm run dev 

This will start both the server and the client, enabling you to modify the front end of the application at will, as well as get a sense of how the various layers of the application are working.

• Brad Traversy - credentials for mongodb and the authenication JWT
• This application - the project that inspired this one

This software is available under the MIT license, available in the file LICENSE