maggie-portfolio

work in progress

This is a portfolio website using React as frontend, ExpressJS for backend and Mongoose as persistence layer.

How to run :

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/Hristiyan-Anchev/maggie-portfolio/

2. Go to the project folder and install all the dependencies for both the development client and backend.

$ cd client && npm install

$ cd ../backend && npm install

3. Create a .env file inside the backend directory

This is where you specify your environment variables, such as:
-the database connection string
-the authentication name and password for your database user (you must create one via mongo shell first to authenticate against your database)
-the email and password that the server will be using to send emails when using the enquiry form
-the target email that all the enquiries are mailed to

Example of .env:

DB_HOST=mongodb://localhost:27017/portfolio_db
DB_USER=backend_server
DB_PASSWD=myPasswordForUser-backend_server
MAIL_USER=username.of.email.that.the.server.uses
MAIL_PASSWD=myEmailPasword
TARGET_MAIL=[email protected]

4. Seed your database with the data from backend/data_seed folder, either via MongoDB Compass or mongo shell.

5. Start the application in development mode:

From the top-level project directory

I. cd client/ && npm start (starts react dev server at localhost:3000)
II. node backend/bin/www (starts backend at localhost:3001)