Birthday Organizer - Platform built with the MERN stack

A platform that organizes birthdays by groups, and counts down to the dates. It has cool features like authentication, authorization, single-page application, responsive design, full CRUD operations & upload photos.

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Website

https://birthday-organizer.herokuapp.com/

Features

• Authentication
• Authorization
• Single-page application
• Responsive design
• Full CRUD operations (for groups and group members)
• Upload photos with Cloudinary and store them in the server

Usage

Env Variables

Create a .env file in the root folder and add the following

DB_URL = your mongodb uri
JWT_SECRET = your own string
CLOUDINARY_CLOUD_NAME = your cloudinary cloud name
CLOUDINARY_KEY = your cloudinary key
CLOUDINARY_SECRET = your cloudinary secret
SECRET = your own string

Install Dependencies (Client & Server)

npm install
cd client
npm install

Run

# Run server
npm start

# Run client
cd client
npm start

# To run client & server you should split the terminal and run the commands listed above

Build & Deploy

# Create frontend prod build
cd client
npm run build

There is a Heroku postbuild script, so if you push to Heroku, no need to build manually for deployment to Heroku