USOF

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Question and answer service with social media interactions.

About app

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Whole USOF application with frontend and backend as a single app.

Technology stack:

• Backend: NodeJS, Express
• Database: Postgresql
• Frontend: React, Redux>, SASS, MUI
• Bundler: Vite

Architecture:

• Server-API: REST and JSON-API specifications, MVC pattern
• Database-API: builder pattern
• Styles: BEM specification
• Authentication: Access and refresh tokens model with JWT

Features:

• Authorization, registering, reseting password
• User pages
• All CRUD operations with posts and comments
• Sorting, filtering, pagination
• Likes, dislikes, user rating
• Interactions with images
• Admin panel
• Mobile friendly and responsive layout
• Smooth and convinient UI/UX
• Incredible loaders, slow down your network just to face this beauty

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Before start preparations

1. Database

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start postgresql server and create empty data base 	#docker container probably the most convinient way

2. Setup the environment

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Create .env file with following entries:

- PORT= #port
- HOST= #host
- JWT_TOKEN= #token key
- JWT_ACCESS_TOKEN_LIFESPAN= #minutes exp: '60 minutes'
- JWT_REFRESH_TOKEN_LIFESPAN= #hours (not less than 1, not greater than 6) exp: '2 hours'
- DB_URL= #postgres connection string exp: "postgresql://user:password@localhost:8889/db_name?sslmode=disable"
- MAILGUN_API_KEY= #your api key for mailgun service
- MAILGUN_DOMEN= #your mailgun domen
- DISABLE_MAILGUN = # 1 in case you want to disable it or 0 if not

3. Installing dependencies and preparing database

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yarn install      
yarn migrate

4. Starting server

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yarn dev 	#for developing mode
yarn build:client && yarn build:server 	#for production