Book-Recommendation-Website

**_✨ A MERN Stack APP **

Setting Up

A. Clone and install packages

1. Fork this project from the top right of the screen to create a copy of the code.

2. Download your fork of the project locally on your machine or clone it using

    git clone git@github.com:<your-username>/Book-Recommendation-Website.git
   

3. Navigate to the folder and run npm i for installing all packages & dependencies for the server/backend via npm.

4. Navigate to the client and run npm i to install all dependencies & packages required for the frontend via yarn.

B. Create API secrets for external services

1. This project uses external services and APIs which require a secret/API pass-key for operations.

   • MongoDB : Either a cloud hosted cluster on Mongo Atlas or your local mongo URL.

C. Edit the config file for serving secrets

1. On the root of your project , in the folder config Add the following content to the default.json mongoURI=<MONGO_CLUSTER_SECRET>

   jwtSecret=<24_BIT_RANDOM_STRING_FOR_ENCODING_JWT>

D. Run the project locally

1. Start the express server (via nodemon) for the backend and client (it uses concurrently).

   npm run dev