Tworeporters.com

a little project I did for a client to create a blazing fast searchable archive of 40+ years of newspaper reporting. The project is built on the MERN stack. It uses nodemailer to send contact us emails to the client.

to set up:

1. clone repo into its own directory.

2. cd into the directory

3. run npm install

4. cd into server

5. run node index to start the server

6. Open a new terminal window and..

7. cd into client

8. run npm start to start the client

9. You will need to set REACT_APP_RECAPTCHA_PUBLIC_KEY to a valid recaptcha key in your .env for recaptcha to work.

todo: use next.js or gatsby.js to make site better for SEO. todo: add admin side to allow articles to be managed.

On the Production Server:

To check the status of the app: sudo systemctl status tworeporters to start the app: sudo systemctl start tworeporters to restart the app: sudo systemctl restart tworeporters to stop the app: sudo systemctl stop tworeporters

to deploy to the server: npm run client:build-deploy npm run server:deploy

will build and deploy the react app and deploy the server respectively.