FeedbackR

Feedbackr is an Opensource and free survey app. 📝. Use it as a starter app to build your own custom feedback collection App or use it as your reference to explore a production ready MERN App.

If you are exploring MERN stack, this app will show you:

• how to use React and Redux

• Routing with React routing

• Using reusable Redux Forms

• Payments with Stripe

• Google OAuth Authentication with Passport.js

• Persisting data into MongoDB and using Mongoose

• Using webhooks

• Sending Automated Emails

• API key handling techniques and Deployment strategy with configs to Heroku

contributions are welcome! Learn how to contribute to this repo here

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Getting started

Please follow these instruction in the order presented for a smooth setup process. since this app relies on many other third party dependencies, it is essential that we get this right.

Clone/Fork source code and install dependencies

1. Clone the repo using

   git clone https://github.com/shashankkatte/feedbackr-mern.git

   or if using ssh

   git clone git@github.com:shashankkatte/feedbackr-mern.git

2. Navigate into the root folder

   cd feedbackr-mern and run npm install

   this installs all the npm dependencies for our servir side of the project.

3. Next navigate into the client directory cd feedbackr-mern/client

   and run npm install to install dependencies for React App

Getting necessary third-party API keys

we use a few third party services and dependencies here's how to set them up, yes everything is FREE!

1. Create a google project and get a OAuth API key here

2. Register for account at MongoDB Atlas

3. Register for Stripe payments here. Once you login, on the left hand navigation click developers and then API Keys. Next Next click create a secret key. You will need these keys for later in cofig keys.

4. Register for SendGrid and get API Key here

5. Configure ngrok for local tunneling here

Create local Dev config file

1. under the config folder create a new file dev.js and add the following keys, Make sure you substitute the key values to your own values

    // Dev.js dont commit to git
module.exports = {
    googleClientID:
      '<Your GoogleAPI KEY>',
    googleClientSecret: '<Your google client API KEY>',
    mongoURI:
      '<Your DEV MngoDB URI>',
      cookieKey: '<Just some random characters>',
      stripePublishableKey: '<Your Stripe publishable key>',
      stripeSecretKey:'<Your stripe secret key>',
      sendGridKey:'<Your sendgrid key>',
      redirectDomain: 'http://localhost:3000'
  };

Run the App

Open your terminal navigate to the project directory and run

npm run dev

Deploying to Production

🌐Live link

This App is originally deployed on Heroku, For production configuration files refer to config/prod.js for the necessary keys and replace the values with your production environment variables.

🙏 Credits and Acknowledgements

This App draws inspirations from many publicly available resources and tutorials on MERN stack.

Special thanks and mention to some great online instructors : Brad Travesy | maximilian schwarzmüller | Stephen Grider and many many more...