Blog Application (Client / Front-end)

Website using Netlify for the front-end, Vercel for the backend, and Azure MySQL database: Blog Website

The backend of this application can be found here: Server Repo

Getting Started (Locally)

1. Clone both the Client and Server repositories into a single folder. (git checkout to the "Original" branch that is the project before adding config for vercel)

2. Install all the dependecies for both repos with the following commmand:
   -This step will need to be completed twice, once while in the Client directory and another in the Server directory

   npm i

3. Import the database dump into mysql using the folder ExampleDB that is in the Servo Repo

4. Create a .env file in the server folder that stores the following information:
   DB_HOST = //The name of the database host (ex. localhost)
   DB_USER = //The name of the user (ex. root)
   DB_PASSWORD = //The password you used to access your database
   DB_NAME = //The name of the Schema (ex. blog_database)
   DB_PORT = //The port your database is running on
   JWT_KEY = //The key you want to use to sign the JWT
   PORT = //The port you want the express backend to run on (ex. 3000)

5. Start the backend server with the following command in the server directory:

   npm run start
   or
   npm run devStart (which is for nodemon)

6. Start the frontend server with the following command in the client directory:

   npm run dev

How it should look