daseulchun / mern_your_places

[MERN] A SNS for posting and sharing favourite places, pictures, and locations.

Your Fav Places

Your Fav Places is a SNS which you can post your favourite places and share pictures.

🎉 You can checkout this awesome application at https://yourfavplaces.web.app!

Technologies

• Node.js/ Express.js
• React.js
• MongoDB
• Heroku/ Firebase/ AWS S3
• Google API: Maps, Geocoding
• JWT

Setup

Prerequisites

To enjoy this application fully, you need :

• MongoDB user credential
• Create database in your MongoDB and create "places", "users" collections inside the database
• Google API Key for Maps JavaScript & Geocoding
• Create your own JWT_KEY
• AWS credentials (IAM user accessKeyId & secretAccessKey)
• Create a bucket under AWS S3

Installation

git clone [email protected]:DaseulChun/MERN_your_places.git
cd MERN_your_places
cd backend
npm install 
npm start // This will start the backend server
cd ..
cd client
npm install 
npm start // This will open up the browser

Input Your Credentials

After cloning this project to your computer, create /backend/nodemon.json referred to /backend/nodemon.json.txt and input all your credentials accordingly.

Create /client/.env referred to /client/.env.text and input your credentials. Now you will be able to play around with it.

Features

• All users can sign up & login
• All users can view places
• All users can view places on the Google Map
• Authenticated users can create places
• Authenticated and authorized users can update & delete their places
• Geocoding (Convert addresses into geographic coordinates like latitude and longitude)