Form-app

Application to view forms posted by the community of users, where users can:

• save forms with their details.
• receive email confirming that the form was saved successfully.

Tech stack used in the project

MERN stack application.

• MongoDB
• ExpressJS
• ReactJS
• NodeJS

External libraries used in UI are:

• Axios
• Ant-design

External libraries used in backend are:

• Cors
• Dotenv

Codebase structure:

• There are two main folders, namely backend & frontend where the code for backend and frontend resides respectively.

Prerequisites for running the project:

• You should have node installed on your machine.
• For database, you can either use mongoDB atlas which is cloud db or use your local db server using mongoDB compass.

Steps to run the project in the local:

If you are windows user:

1. Clone the repository.
2. After cloning the repo, switch to backend folder using:
   • cd backend
3. Now run npm install to install the backend dependencies.
4. After installing dependencies, run npm run server to start the server which should load here.
5. Go back to the root of the repo, and switch to frontend folder using:
   • cd frontend
6. Now run npm install to install the frontend dependencies.
7. After installing dependencies, run npm start to start the UI which should load here.

Note:

1. In order to run this project using local db you should have MongoDBCompass installed.
2. In order to connect to local mongoDB database you need to replace the mongoDB URI inside backend\config\keys.js to 'mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/Xmeme' (including single quotes) where Xmeme is the db name. You can use your choice of db name.

Feedbacks:

• I am always an email/ linkedin ping away for the feedbacks to improve this further or add new functionalities or discussing new ideas (not regarding this project in particular).

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