MERN Stack Setup


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MERN Stack

Consist of following components

  • MongoDB - document database
  • Express(.js) - Node.js web framework
  • React(.js) - a client-side JavaScript framework
  • Node(.js) - the premier JavaScript web server

Final product here

Install Node

Using nvm

Create Project

  • npm init
  • accept all defaults

Install Express

npm install express --save

Express Gen

https://expressjs.com/en/starter/generator.html

Root ‘/’

Free up routing for ‘/’ in app.js

- app.use('/', indexRouter);
+ app.use('/home', indexRouter);

Setup React

Create React app

npx create-react-app reactapp --template redux

Do cleanup

Follow Steps

Install MUI

Routing

npm install react-router-dom --save

Setup Build

package.json

  "scripts": {
    "build": "react-scripts build && rm -rf ../expressapp/public/ && mv build ../expressapp/public/",
  },

MongoDB

wsl2 Install

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/tutorials/wsl-database

https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-ubuntu/

wget -qO - https://www.mongodb.org/static/pgp/server-5.0.asc | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb [ arch=amd64,arm64 ] https://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu focal/mongodb-org/5.0 multiverse" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-5.0.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y mongodb-org
mongod --version
sudo service mongod start
mongo --eval 'db.runCommand({ connectionStatus: 1 })'

init Script Setup

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mongodb/mongo/master/debian/init.d | sudo tee /etc/init.d/mongodb >/dev/null
sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/mongodb
sudo service mongodb status/start/stop

VS Code Connect

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/azure/mongodb

Connection locahost instance

localhost
27017
noauth

Test Run

cd reactapp
npm run build

cd expresapp
npm start

Dockerize