This quarantine really messed up my grocery management as I was constantly running into situations where the stuff in the fridge went past expiry date. Now I know there are apps out there which are far more efficient and good looking than mine which do exactly the same thing, but I took up the free time to learn the MERN stack and develop a working web application which keeps track of the expiry date of all the items you enter during the time of purchase. Further, this can also be easily used as a to-do list with a deadline.
- You would want to setup a MongoDB account. Go through this video at 5:01.
- Open config\keys.js file and enter your username, password and the database name you want.
- Clone the repo and run
npm install
which will install all the node modules. Do the same in client folder for the react app node modules. - Run
npm run dev
to start both the server and client