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Justin Maximillian Kimlim
Justin Maximillian Kimlim

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I built doge theme of Reddit using MERN Stack!

Hello developers, I've recently created a doge theme version of Reddit, called Dogeit using the MERN Stack (MongoDB, Express JS, React JS, and Node JS).

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🐶 Doge version of reddit.

Dogeit

🐶 Doge version of reddit.

Dogeit demo

Local Setup

  • Clone this repository or fork it
  • Navigate to client directory
    • Run yarn or npm i.
    • Create a new file called .env which stores environment variables such as
      • REACT_APP_SERVER_URL, your server endpoint
      • REACT_APP_GITHUB_CLIENT_ID, your GitHub OAuth Client ID
      • REACT_APP_SECURITY_KEY, a random token used to secure your application
    • Start application by running npm start or yarn start
  • Navigate to server directory
    • Run yarn or npm i
    • Create a new file called .env which stores environment variables such as
      • GITHUB_CLIENT_ID, your GitHUb OAuth Client ID
      • GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET, your GitHUB OAuth Client Secret
      • CLIENT_URL, your client endpoint
      • ATLAS_URI, your MongoDB Atlas URI
      • SECURITY_KEY, a random token used to secure your application, note that this token value must be the same as REACT_APP_SECURITY_KEY value in client/.env file
      • EMAIL_ADDRESS, Your Email Address
      • EMAIL_PROVIDER, Your Email Provider
      • EMAIL_PASS

Any comments will be appreciated :)

If you like this project, be sure to drop a star on GitHub 🌟!

Happy coding!

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DGAME

Wow, awesome love your code structure.. Please could you do a video of how to build something similar to this? Thanks

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Justin Maximillian Kimlim

Do you mean create tutorial on youtube?

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DGAME

Yea