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)
- Clone Repsository
- Clone repository, enter package (
cd workshop/) from command line, and continue with the next steps.
- Clone repository, enter package (
- Install dependencies:
- Command:
npm install
- Command:
- Run Webpack
- Command:
npm run build
- Command:
- 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 secretMONGODB_URI-- your mongo db instance uri for this app (I use mLab)HASH_KEY-- hash key used by the password encryption package (bcrypt)
- To run express server, some env variables must be set:
- 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.
- Command:
- After making changes always run webpack
- During development:
npm run build - For production:
npm run prod
- During development: