Articulate

A simple fullstack MERN app.

Overview

This project began as a one-day code challenge. The requirements were:

1. Using RESTful architecture, build a Node.js/Express server that has endpoints for creating, updating, deleting, and retrieving articles.
2. Persist the article data using MongoDB.
3. Develop a frontend to interact with the backend articles API.

Technologies

• React 15.5.4
• Redux 3.6.0
• React Router 4.1.1
• Axios 0.16.1
• Node.js 6.9.2
• Express 4.15.2
• MongoDB 3.4.2
• Mongoose 4.9.8
• Webpack 2.5.1

Using this Repo

Fork and clone the repo, then install dependencies:

npm install

In a separate shell window, start MongoDB:

mongod

This app uses the npm-run-all package to allow Webpack to watch the client files and nodemon to watch the server files. To start both of these processes:

npm start

Next Steps

• Use a CSS preprocessor like SASS for styles.
• Rebuild the frontend using Angular 2 or Angular 4.
• Create a version that uses mySQL rather than Mongo.
• Implement user authentication.