🌐 ONetwork Forum

✨🚀Full-stack forum website built with MERN Stack (ReactJS, NodeJS, ExpressJS, MongoDB).✨🚀

Live Demo

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☄ Features ☄

• User authentication using JSON Web Tokens (JWT) with BFF (Backend-For-Frontend) security pattern.
• Allow users to create, read and delete topics.
• Allow users to create, read and delete comments.
• Allow users to create, read and delete replies.
• Search engine for searching topics supported with sorting filters.
• Allow users to upvote and downvote topics and comments.
• Allow users to see their published comments, created topics, upvoted topics, their following list and their followers list.
• Allow users to reset their account password if they forgot it.
• Nested comments threading.
• Homepage feed (Front Page).
• Allow users to follow each other.
• Allow users to edit their profile informations and change their profile avatar and cover.
• Users can't access their account after signin-up till they activate it from the link sent to the email associated with their account.
• Sending users an email in case they request a password reset or an email verification.
• ... And more to come with next updates!
  

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💻 Used Technologies 💻

• ReactJS
• ExpressJS
• NodeJS
• MongoDB
• Redux
• Redux Toolkit
• React Bootstrap

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❓ How to use ❓

1- Clone this repo.

git clone https://github.com/ilyasbelfar/ONetwork-Forum.git
cd ONetwork-Forum

2- Install Client dependencies.

cd client/
npm i

3- Install Server dependencies.

cd server/
npm i

4- Configure environment variables by creating .env file in the server directory and copy the content of env.example file in .env file, and fill it with your own secrets.

cd server/
cp env.example .env

5- Create a MongoDB database and name it 'my_app', You can use MongoDB Atlas cloud free tier.

6- Start server.

cd server/
npm start

7- Start client in another terminal while the server is running.

cd client/
npm start

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📌 Other 📌

I encourages contributions! Feel free to discuss any bug fixes/features in the issues section. And if you wish to work on this project:

1. Fork this project
2. Create a branch (git checkout -b new-branch)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'add new feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin new-branch)
5. Submit a pull request!