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Notes about the project

Local settings used in development

Starting both frontend and backend in one script

See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51126472/how-to-organise-file-structure-of-backend-and-frontend-in-mern

  • start both frontend and backend with NPM package concurrently. Frontend local port is setup in frontend/package.json under "scripts: {start}".

  • Then backend/package.json has a script named nodemon" that starts nodemon. The root level package.json has a script named "start-all" that can launch both scripts in frontend and backend.

  • both front and back ends can thus be launched by running npm run start-all in the root level

Local URLs

  • in frontend see URL variable in api/api-calls.js
  • in backend see .env with the environment variables

CORS

  • The CORS options that allows API calls from the frontend are inside the backend folder: startup/routes.js.
  • Local value is the LOCAL_FRONTEND_URL environment variable

Database indexing

  • Disabling autoindex in mongoose connect options might enhance performance, setting is in the backend folder: startup/connect-db.js

Backend summary

Dedicated folders for dev / prod environments

  • These folders are in the backend: startup/dev.js and startup/prod.js

startup/dev.js

  • Uses morgan module for logging purposes

startup/prod.js

  • Uses helmet module for web security and compression to compress requests

Trees structure for data

Error handling middleware

Testing with jest

Auth: reset password

Auth: passport

  • Use route.use(passport.initialize()) instead of app.use(). See issue.

Frontend summary

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