Simple CMS for maintaining a blog.

I wanted something exclusive and unique to provide a platform for my blog and I also wanted to learn React. The best way to learn a tech stack is to use it, so I did. My primitive CMS was born. Basic features include adding/editing/deleting posts and photo galleries. Planned features include handling comments and integrating other social media functions to allow reader engagement.

This project uses the MERN stack (MongoDB, ExpressJS, ReactJS, NodeJS).

This project was bootstrapped with Create React App.

This option is good for testing the currently deployed system and the routing system itself.

On windows, run start.bat in a command prompt to run the frontend+backend served on localhost:4000. The React app is served from the client/build directory. To execute commands individually, see steps below.

cd mernblog
npm install
npm run-script win-local
cd client/
npm install
npm run-script build

Although the Node server will restart automatically on code and file changes, the React app needs to be rebuilt with npm run-script build after any code changes.

Run the Node API server on localhost:4000 and the React dev server on localhost:3000.

cd mernblog
npm install
npm run-script win-local
cd client/
npm install
npm start

Both servers restart automatically on code change to make changes visible on the site.

Draw a basic dependency graph of the React components used. This does not include external libraries in the output graph.

. .drawdeps