To run Backend on you local machine follow the below steps :
- Fork this repo and then
git clone
that fork on your local machine - After it go in the project root directory by writing
cd blog-backend
- After it install all the node modules by running command
npm install
- Create a Database on MongoDb atlas and get its connection string from it.
- Make a file with name
.env
in project root directory and paste inside the contents of.env.example
- In the place of
[YOUR_MONGODB_ATLAS_URL]
paste your MongoDb connection string - In the place of
[SECRET_WORD_OF_YOUR_CHOICE]
paste any secret word of your choice and save the file - Now open terminal in the root directory of the project and run command
npm run dev
- It will start the Backend sever on your machine and you'll see the below output in the terminal if everything worked fine.
Server running on port 9002
MongoDb connected successfully