File Manager With Authentication - MERN

6/21/2020 (Father's Day version)

By Siavash Ashkiani

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Description

Boilerplate for Password Protected File Manager Apps with MERN. This app is a template that you can use to create your own application. It includes some common features like user authentication, creating files or projects within the app and allowing the user to share those files with other users.

Features

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• User can create an account by providing a unique username and a password.
• User can create new files.
• User can delete existing files
• User can share their existing files with other users

Demo

Click to watch demo on YouTube

Setup/Installation Requirements

Option 1: using NPX (recommended)

• Execute the following commands:

npx create-file-manager-app APP-NAME
cd APP-NAME
npm install

• Update the .env file located in the app's root folder for your settings See create-file-manager-app for more details

Option 2: Clone repo

• Clone this repository.
• Run npm install
• Create a .env file in the root folder and add the following variables:

AUTH_SECRET = YourSecretString
MONGODB_URI = YourMongoDBConnection

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Known Bugs

None - at this time​.

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Support and contact details

​ Please email us for further questions at [email protected] ​

Technologies and Libraries Used

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• Node
• React
• JavaScript
• Bootstrap ​

Contribution Guidlines

​ Direct link to site: https://siavash-file-manager.herokuapp.com/

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License

​ Copyright(c) 2020 Siavash Ashkiani ​

This software is licensed under MIT license.