workshop

This will be a site for editing and sharing creative writing works such as short stories, poems, screenplays, personal essays, etc. It will be designed in a way similar to Medium, where you can create the works inside the site with a rich text editor, and save them there. Then you can also read and discover other people's works, add comments, and also follow users.

Technologies used

• Node.js
• Express.js; Passport.js
• MongoDB
• React.js; Redux; React-Router; Redux-Thunk
• Webpack
• Slate.js (an opensource react framework for building rich text editors)

Current State

Usage

1. Clone Repsository
   • Clone repository, enter package (cd workshop/) from command line, and continue with the next steps.
2. Install dependencies:
   • Command: npm install
3. Run Webpack
   • Command: npm run build
4. Set env variables
   • To run express server, some env variables must be set:
     • SECRET -- Some string of text for mongo session to use as it's secret
     • MONGODB_URI -- your mongo db instance uri for this app (I use mLab)
     • HASH_KEY -- hash key used by the password encryption package (bcrypt)
5. Start the server
   • Command: npm run server
   • Navigate to http://localhost:3000 and you should see a page saying "Home Page"
   • You must register/login in order to see the editor.
6. After making changes always run webpack
   • During development: npm run build
   • For production: npm run prod