MERN Stack Boilerplate

Seeding the DB

seed_jobs and seed_users contain jsons that can be sent to appropriate api routes for creation

Installations

Node

• For Linux:

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_13.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

• For Mac:

brew install node

MongoDB

Install the community edition here.

React

npm install -g create-react-app

Running the boilerplate

• Run Mongo daemon:

sudo mongod

Mongo will be running on port 27017.

• Run Express Backend:

cd backend/
npm install
npm start

• Run React Frontend:

cd frontend
npm install/
npm start

Navigate to http://localhost:3000/ in your browser.