A simple photo-sharing social network app. Both front end and back end developed using Mongo, Express, React and Node.
Start by creating an account! User account information is stored in your local mongo database. You can only see others once you log in.
Post your favorite photos. Your profile keeps track of your most recent upload and your most popular upload.
Leave comments on your friends photos. Most recent activity is found on the activity feed.
If you uploaded the photo, you can delete anyone's comments. If it is your friend's photo, you can only delete your comments.
Delete your account, along with everything you ever uploaded or commented.
Homebrew installation:
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
Node, MongoDB and Express installation:
brew install node
npm install
brew install mongodb
sudo mkdir -p /data/db
sudo chown -R `id -un` /data/db
npm install --save express-session
Additional dependencies:
npm install --save body-parser
npm install --save multer
Install Node from https://nodejs.org/en/download.
Install Mongo from https://www.mongodb.org/downloads#production.
Make sure the directory C:\data\db exists and is writable, in order to use Mongo.
Now install the following:
npm install
npm install --save express-session
npm install --save body-parser
npm install --save multer
Run each of these on a new tab in the same directory. Note that node loadDatabase.js will completely clear the database each time it is run, because I have initialized no fake starting accounts, so be careful when running this.
mongod
node webServer.js & npm run build:w
node loadDatabase.js
Finally, to view the web app, go to the URL: http://localhost:3000/photo-share.html.
This loads photoShare.jsx from photo-share.html.
If you encounter any problems after quitting your terminal without having stopped Mongo or Node properly, try running either of these commands (pgrep mongo gives you the process number of the Mongo session still running in the background):
pgrep mongo
kill <process number>
killall -9 node