💬 Mini message board

A lightweight message board made with MongoDB, Express, React, and NodeJS.

📚 Libraries and tools used

Frontend

• React: Frontend design
• Axios: GET/POST requests with backend

Backend

• Node: Backend environment.
• Express: Requests management
• Mongoose: MongoDB connection and object modeling
• CORS: Library to allow CORS
• Nodemon (dev): Library to hot reload the server on change

Database

• MongoDB: A NoSQL database

Deployment

• Docker: Project bundler in OS-level virtualization containers to work in any environment

⚙️ Run the app

Default ports:

• Backend: 8000
• Frontend: 3000
• MongoDB: 27017

Option 1 (recommended): 🐳 Docker

Download the source code

git clone https://github.com/alesbe/mini-message-board.git
cd mini-message-board

Run Docker Compose

docker-compose up

Option 2: Run the project yourself

You'll need 3 different terminals, because each part works individually and does not support detached mode without docker.

1.- Setup database

Download mongodb and start the process

mongod

2.- Download the source code

git clone https://github.com/alesbe/mini-message-board.git
cd mini-message-board

3.- Setup backend server

Go to server folder and install dependencies

cd server
npm install

Then, start the server

node server.js

4.- Setup frontend

Go to project root folder and cd into client, then, install dependencies

cd client
npm install

Then, start the client

npm start