README.md

MERN Oxford Dictionaries

A dictionary PWA built with MERN stack using Oxford Dictionaries API

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Features

• Definitions
• History
• Bookmarks
• Light/dark mode toggle
• PWA (Progressive Web App)

Run Locally

Clone the project

  git clone https://github.com/MobinurRahaman/mern-oxford-dictionaries.git

Go to the project directory

 cd mern-oxford-dictionaries

Go to the client directory

  cd client

Install dependencies

  yarn install

Create a .env file

Set environment variable as mentioned below

Start the React server

  yarn start

open a new terminal window

Go back to the root project directory

Go to the server directory

  cd server

Install dependencies

  yarn install

Create a .env file

Set environment variables as mentioned below

Run the Node server

  yarn start

Open a browser and go to http://localhost:3000

Environment Variables

To run this project, you will need to add the following environment variables to your

client/.env file

REACT_APP_SERVER_BASE_URL

server/.env file

FRONTEND_URL

APP_ID

APP_KEY

MONGODB_URL

• Get your APP_ID and APP_KEY from https://developer.oxforddictionaries.com

• Get your MONGODB_URL from https://cloud.mongodb.com

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License

Distributed under the GPL-3.0 License. See LICENSE for more information.