In both the client and server you will need to set up your environmental variables (port and host). The server uses these variables to start the server, and the client uses the variables to make http requests to the correct url. Each env file is located at the root of the folder (client and server).
Move into the server folder in your terminal and type npm run serve. This will compile all your server TypeScript files and start your server on the host and port you specified in your server env file.
Make sure you have Node.js installed or install it. Install the dependencies by running npm install command in the server and client directories.
To start a local development server:
- create a
.envfile inserver/srcdirectory and populate it withPORTandSECRETvariables:
PORT=8080
SECRET="YOUR SECRET KEY"- run
nodemon index.tscommand fromserver/srcdirectory
To start the frontend server run npm start command from the top of the client directory.
By default, the frontend connects to http://localhost:8080. If you wish to use a different port, edit the env.ts file in client/src directory.
In the mocks directory you will find a json file with four user profiles: one student and three tutors. You can start the app and load this file into your MongoDB and copy the uploads directory into server/src directory to display images for these profiles. Password1 is the password for all the mock profiles.
TypeScript on the frontend and the backend
Node.js and Express for creating the server, jsonwebtoken and bcrypt for authentication, multer for form data handling, MongoDB with Mongoose (ODM library).
This project was intially started by Aaron Sherill and has been greatly improved through the contributions of Anton Novak and Danny Gold. Their valuable contributions and enhancements have been instrumental in elevating the project's development and enhancing its overall quality.