API for P2P file sharing web application, Zed

zed-sharing-node

Backend for file sharing app built with the MERN Stack

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About The Project 😶‍🌫️

This is the API for Zed, a file sharing platform built for the Hashnode and Linode Hackathon ✨ 🎉 You can find the frontend code here

Built with ✨

• NodeJS
• MySQL
• Sequelize

Running the server locally 🏠

To get a local copy up and running follow these simple steps.

• Clone this repo (have git installed)

  git clone https://github.com/lucky-chap/zed-sharing-node.git

• Install dependencies (have nodejs installed)

  cd zed-sharing-node
  yarn install # or npm install

• Make sure you create a .env file and fill it with .env.example as reference
• In config.js, remove the dialectOptions object as you would not be needing it in development
• Build, seed and migrate the database all together

  yarn build

• Now run the server

  yarn start

Running the server in production 🏨

To get a local copy up and running follow these simple steps.

• Clone this repo (have git installed)

  git clone https://github.com/lucky-chap/zed-sharing-node.git

• Install dependencies (have nodejs installed)

  cd zed-sharing-node
  yarn install # or npm install

• Make sure you create a .env file and fill it with .env.example as reference
• Also remember to add an SSL certificate file to the root folder so sequelize can read from there. This is required to connect to the MySQL database on your server
• Build, seed and migrate the database all together

  yarn build

• Now run the server

  yarn start

Contributing ➕

You rock! Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.

If you have a suggestion that would make this better, please fork the repo and create a pull request. You can also simply open an issue with the tag "enhancement". Don't forget to give the project a star! Thanks again!

1. Fork the Project
2. Create your Feature Branch (git checkout -b feature/coolStuff)
3. Commit your Changes (git commit -m 'Add some coolStuff')
4. Push to the Branch (git push origin feature/coolStuff)
5. Open a Pull Request

License 📜

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.

Come say hi 👋

• Twitter: @hunchodotdev
• Discord: @FatKidOnFiree#1355
• Reddit: @huncho_dot_dev