postslab

A full stack home lab in MEARN with authentication

Disclaimer

This lab is for learning purpose only, a lot of practices make it not ready for production.

Only dev environment is available for now.

Opinions

This is a home lab, and except the time constraints, I can make and live with my own choices and constraints:

• ES6 + syntax, except for Classes
• No use of ES6 classes, including for React.
• Use async/await whenever it is possible.
• No frameworks.
• Few libraries as possible (that's why I use fetch API and not Axios).

Launching MongoDB

Pre-requisites

• docker
• docker-compose

Start

Go to docker/env folder and, change the user/password in the docker-env.yaml and:

docker-compose up

Launching backend server

Pre-requisites

• node

Install dependencies

cd backend; npm install

Configure .env

cp dotenv-sample .env; vi .env

Run

npm run dev

It uses nodemon to monitor changes

Launching front-end

cd postslab-frontend; npm install; npm start