d8a928b2 / friendly-computing-machine

MERN Authentication

The repository contains:

• Distributed code from eCentennial used to build a MERN Authentication application.
• /.devcontainer: Configuration file used by Codespaces to determine operating system.
• /.vscode: Configuration file used by Codespaces to configure Visual Studio Code settings.
• /client/.eslintrc: Settings for ESLint included for code consistency and quality.
• /client/.prettierrc: Settings for Prettier used to format code.
• package.json and yarn.lock: Defines the application information for Node.js, dependent packages, and the versions needed for each.

Getting Started

Select Open in GitHub Codespaces and then Create codespace. GitHub will prepare the development environment with all installed dependencies.

Update .env File

Reference the example provided client/.env.example to create client/.env.

MONGODB_URI=mongodb+srv://your_user:your_password@your_cluster.mongodb.net/YourDatabase?retryWrites=true&w=majority&appName=YourApp/yourcollection

Start the Server

After setting up the environment variables, change directory to client and start the server.

cd client
yarn dev

Navigate to http://localhost:5173/ to register an account and sign in.