Getting Started with Po-Quo App

Welcome to popular quotes app. This project was built using express and react.

About the project

This project is a combination of variety of topics we studied during our full-stack course.

Popular-quotes is a website for sharing and reading quotes of all types and languages.

The website has a Node.js - express api along with a MongoDb database for it's back-end. While the front-end was built using React.js.

Available Scripts

In the project directory, you can run:

npm start

Runs the app in the development mode.
Open [http://localhost:8181] to view it in your browser.

Enviroment file format and config folder

You will need a .env file at the root folder of the project, the contents of that file is as follows:

DB = "Your database link"

HOST = "The Mail service hosting source"

EMAIL = "Mail address which the emails will be sent from"

PASS = "Password for said EMAIL"

SERVICE = "Name of the mailing service company"

Also necessary is a config folder with a default.json file.

default.json

Will contain a json object with "jwtKey" property, any string will work as this field is for jwt encryption.

Learn More

You can learn more about the developer at https://www.linkedin.com/in/gavriel-mor/

To see the react front end repo, go to https://github.com/Gavriel-M/po-quo

Also, the project has been uploaded to heroku - you can view it here : https://po-quo.herokuapp.com/