Blogosphere

A blogging web application built with the MERN stack

Installing

• To install, run npm install
• To run the Express server, run npm start
• For the React app:
  • To run the development app, run npm run dev-server. The React app will then be served using webpack-dev-server
  • To run the production app, run npm run build to bundle the React app using Webpack. The bundled code will then be served by the Express server
• To run the back-end tests, run npm run test-express`
• To run the front-end tests, run npm run test-react`

Built With

• Nodejs, Expressjs, Mongodb and Mongoose for the REST API
• React.js for the user interface
• Redux for state management and dispatching asynchronous API request
• Webpack for module bundling and running a React development server
• Babel.js for transpiling ES6+ code
• Mocha, Chai, Jest and Enzyme for testing

User Roles

• Unauthenticated users can:
  • Create an account
  • Read articles
  • View user profiles
• Authenticated users can do everything unauthenticated users can do, as well as:
  • Create/edit/delete/like articles
  • Create/edit their user profiles
  • Follow other users