This repository contains a simple Full Stack Express / React application. It is intended to demonstrate as wide an array of features as possible while still keeping the app simple and easy to understand.

This application accompanies the course on Pluralsight Building a Full Stack Application with Express and React [Note: Add link].

This application consists of Front End component (located in the app directory) that is built with Redux and React. It also has a Back End component (located in the server directory) that uses Express to manage

First, install the programs required to run the application:

• Git
• Node.js
• Mongo.DB

Next, clone this repository and install dependencies:

git clone git@github.com:danielstern/express-react-fullstack.git

npm install

Also, make sure MongoDB is running by navigating to the installation directory and running (in cmd or terminal), replacing the path with your chosen Mongo directory:

C:\Data\bin\mongod.exe

Now, start the development environment with the following command:

npm run dev

The application should open automatically.

Problem: The application won't start!

Try:

1. Run npm install again
2. Update your version of Node.js to the latest
3. Clone the finished repo and start from there

Problem: I'm getting weird error XYZ!

Try:

1. Cancel npm run dev (with ctrl-C on windows) and run it again
2. If there error mentions any particular file, visit that file and make sure you didn't make any common errors (capitalization of property names, forgetting to destructure paramaters with curly brackets)
3. Still no luck? Clone the finished repo and prune away parts of it until you are at the point you left off.

Coming January 2019