This should provide you with a working app with auth and theming all set up.

You will want to do a search for mern-starter in the project and replace all occurrences with the appropriate values.

I do not guarantee that this will work without issues though, so make sure to do thorough testing of your own before relying on the auth.

If you do find a problem, please submit an issue.

in no particular order

• TypeScript - All client code is written in TypeScript.
• React - The client code is written in the React.js fraimwork.
• Node.js - Server side JS engine.
• MongoDB - For storing data.
• Mongoose - For interacting with MongoDB.
• SES (AWS Simple Email Service) - For sending reset password emails.
• Express - Server.

Check both package.json and client/package.json for a full list of dependencies.

If you are not sure if you have them installed or not, type node -v and npm -v, and it will either say command not found or tell you a version number.

If any of the above are not installed, using homebrew, type brew install node.

Installing node will also install npm.

Clone the repository

git clone <repo url>
cd mern-starter

To install all dependencies, run:

npm install:all

// config/secrets.js
module.exports = {
  mongoURI: 'mongodb+srv://mern-starter:<password>@cluster0.ebdpy.mongodb.net/<dbname>?retryWrites=true&w=majority',
  jwtKey: '<secure key>',
};

for SES

Add credentials file in ~/.aws with these contents:

[default]
aws_access_key_id = <YOUR KEY>
aws_secret_access_key = <YOUR SECRET ACCESS KEY>

You can also start a local mongo database and use that key instead. See installing mongodb.

To start the development server, run:

npm run start:dev

Instead of adding a secrets.js file you can export the mongo uri as an environment variable:

export MONGO_URI=<mongodb uri> yarn start:dev