eLearning-Platform-Backend

About

This is the semester project for CS4398, this project is create a web app similar to udemy or coursera. In this repository all of the server side code is stored here. This is a node.js server with express as the middleware. The database being used is Mongodb. The frontend of this code can be found in the repository eLearning-Platform-frontend

Cloning Instructions

1. Fork the repository
2. Open in terminal
3. run npm install
4. run npm run dev to start the dev server

Before running the server

• Be sure to create a .env file
• in the index.js file there is a variable named process.env.MONGO_CONNECT_KEY
• This variable is pulled from the .env file
• To intialize the variable create the .env file and add MONGO_CONNECT_KEY=<yourkey>
• I will have to make users on mongodb and allow for you to connect... reach out if needed.

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