twitter-clone

This is a twitter-clone project made using MERN STACK.

Installation and Run:

Follow the following instruction to run the code on your system.

• Get the code on your pc.
• Open terminal and navigate to the root directory of the code.

for BackEnd

• run command 'cd server' inside the terminal to navigate to the server(backend) folder.
• run 'npm install' command inside the terminal to install all backend dependenices.
• After complete installation, create '.env' file inside the server directory and define the following variables inside the .env file (server)
  • PORT = the localhost port of your backend code
  • MONGODB_URL = Database url
  • JWT_SECRET_KEY = a secret key for jsonwebtoken
  • JWT_EXPIRY = expiry time for token
  • COOKIE_EXPIRE = expiry time for cookies

  Note: Create an account on cloudinary ( in case you don't have one )

  • CLOUD_NAME = Cloudinary account name
  • CLOUD_API_KEY = Cloudinary api key
  • CLOUD_API_SECRET = Cloudinary api secret key
  • CLOUD_USER_FOLDER = Folder name to store user's photos
  • CLOUD_POST_FOLDER = Folder name to store post's photos
  • CLIENT_URL = localhost address of frontend ( http://localhost:3000 )

for FrontEnd

• run command 'cd..' to go back to parent directory.
• run command 'cd client' inside the terminal to navigate to the client(frontend) folder.
• run 'npm install' command inside the terminal to install all frontend dependenices.
• After complete installation, create '.env' file inside the client directory and define the following variables inside the .env file (client)
  • REACT_APP_BASE_URL = localhost address of backend server