README.md

User Profile Dashboard with Authentication

This is a user profile dashboard application.

It includes:

• Backend API with Express and MongoDB
• Routes for auth, login, register, profile page
• JWT authentication stored in browser local storage
• Middleware for verifying JWT token
• Error messages with Toast library
• React frontend for login, register, profile page
• Tailwind CSS

Usage

/frontend/.ENV

1. In the frontend folder, create a file named .env, and put the following inside it, remember to change the server domain to yours:

REACT_APP_SERVER_DOMAIN=<YOUR_SERVER_DOMAIN>

/backend/config.js

1. In the backend folder, create a file named config.js and put the following inside it:

export default {
  JWT_SECRET: <'YOUR_JWT_SECRET_KEY'>,
  ATLAS_URI:
    <'YOUR_ATLAS_URI'>,
};

2. Open the termial, and type in:

openssl rand -base64 32

3. Press enter, copy the returned value, and replace it in the JWT_SECRET in the config.js file.
4. Go to MongoDB Atlas, sign in and create a new database, copy the Atlas URI and replace it in the ATLAS_URI in the ``config.js` file.

Install dependencies

1. fontend

cd frontend
npm install

2. backend

cd backend
npm install

Build

1. fontend

cd frontend
npm start

2. backend

cd backend
npm start