Advanced Node Production

This repository is for exploring advanced node concepts for production deployment. This is a full-blown node blog application with authentication, react-client, and MongoDB.

Changelog

• Make sure to setup your keys in a .env file in root
• Make sure to run yarn install to install all dependencies
• Run scripts with:
  • yarn dev
  • yarn build
  • yarn start

Updates in server

• Upgrade all dependencies to latest
• Switch to using yarn instead of npm
  • package-json.lock > yarn.lock
• Required versions set in package.json:
  • yarn: ^1.17.0
  • node: ^12.7.0
• Add support for module-alias to allow aliasing of modules in require()
• Switch to .env files for managing keys
  • Check .env.placeholder for setup
• Remove semicolons in .js
• Add nodemon.json for Nodemon settings
  • Add ignore for changes in client (already handled by CRA)
• Blog Schema
  • createdAt > created
• Some code cleanups

Updates in client

• Upgrade all dependencies to latest
• Switch to using yarn instead of npm
  • package-json.lock > yarn.lock
• Required versions set in package.json:
  • yarn: ^1.17.0
  • node: ^12.7.0
• Add jsconfig.json to support module path alias directly starting from src
• Remove semicolons in .js
• Some code cleanups