News Explorer

**Note: Please see the News Explorer frontend repository readme file for a details on how the full application works.

Technologies, Features, Libraries

MongoDB - Express.js - Node.js

Backend

JSON web tokens: simplifies the authentication process
celebrate: inbound data validation
mongoose: allows JavaScript to work with our database (MongoDB)
bcryptjs: protects passwords with hashes and a 10 character salt
middlewares: express request limiter, request and error logging with winston/express-winston, enabling CORS, authorization, HTTP headers with helmet

News Explorer is deployed with Google Cloud. It features HTTPS protocol via SSL certificates and redirects requests using NGINX. The app can be viewed at:

my-news-explorer.students.nomoreparties.sbs
www.my-news-explorer.students.nomoreparties.sbs

copy the repositories to your machine (links to repository below)
run 'npm i' in the root directory of each project
run 'npm run dev' from to launch the backend. New Explorer backend respository
run 'npm run start' from to launch the frontend. News Explorer frontend repository
that's it. have fun!!

Name		Name	Last commit message	Last commit date
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constants		constants
controllers		controllers
errors		errors
fixtures		fixtures
middlewares		middlewares
models		models
routes		routes
tests		tests
.editorconfig		.editorconfig
.eslintrc		.eslintrc
.gitignore		.gitignore
README.md		README.md
app.js		app.js
config.js		config.js
package-lock.json		package-lock.json
package.json		package.json