MERN E-Library

Simple Library Management System developed as a MERN web application.

Final project - SENG 513 Fall 2022

View the live deployment of the app at Vercel here. The backend is deployed at Render here.

Usage

• Docker

  • Ensure that Docker is installed locally. https://www.docker.com/
  • Make a new folder at a path of your liking.
  • In the newly created folder, pull the following container images from DockerHub by running in a terminal shell:
    1. docker pull bhodrolokd/mernlibrary:4.03
    2. docker pull bhodrolokd/mernlibrary:mernlibfront-4.03
  • This will respectively download the backend and frontend Docker container images from the repository locally.
  • To confirm the pull, run docker images and you should see something like:
  • To run the images in two separate containers, run the following commands one after the other:
    1. docker run -d -p 4000:4000 --name back1 <backend_image_id>
    2. docker run -d -p 3000:3000 --name back1 <frontend_image_id>
  • The -d flag ensures that the containers run in the background without consuming your current terminal shell!
  • Open a web browser and go to http://localhost:3000.

• Manual

  • Ensure that Node.js is installed locally. https://nodejs.org/en/download/
  • Open a terminal in the /root folder.
  • Run npm install.
  • Run npm start.
  • If your system already has a preferred default web browser, it should open and go to http://localhost:3000 .
  • If not, you can visit it from any web browser you want!
  • Please be aware that building and running the application through this method will take additional time for the frontend to render compared to the other method.

Contributors

• Ranadip Chatterjee (Backend)
• Md Azharul Islam Fahim (Backend)
• Arjun Varma Kakarlapudi (Frontend)
• Kamrul Ahsan Noor (Frontend)