README.md

Famcloud | Photo Storage App for Traveling Friends & Fam

• Developer: Juan Rivera
• Date: April 19, 2020
• (Still Under Development)

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Overview

famcloud is a full-stack MERN application featuring a travel-themed user interface with Dropzone and Multer for photo uploading. Users can take photos and store them by continent, country, and year. Uploading and saving photo details is simplified with an auto-complete list of all countries. The landing page displays the photo gallery where users can view and search photos by continent and year.

Installation Steps

1. Git clone with HTTPS to your local machine https://github.com/JuanCodeAtATime/famCloud.git.
2. In famcloud folder, run npm install to install back-end dependencies.
3. Then, cd client and run npm install to install front-end dependencies.
4. Go back to root directory (famcloud) by running cd ...
5. Lastly, run npm run dev to launch in your local machine.

Built With

• Programming Language: JavaScript
• Runtime Evironment/Sever: Node.js
• DBMS: Mongo DB
• Libraries/Frameworks Used: React-Bootstrap, Ant Design, Drop-Zone, Multer

Future Updates

This app has no issues when running locally. However, on deployed Heroku site, photo rendering and storage functionality is intermittenly throwing this error in the console: "Failed to load resource: net::ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSE". A cloud solution such as AWS S3 would probably fix this issue. Until then, a local uploads/ folder suffices as a temporary solution to store and render images.

Demo

Click here to see demo of the app's basic functionality and responsiveness.

Deployed Site

Click here to visit deployed site.