nostalgia-games-app

App that allows users to browse through old games, get additional information and move them to a nostalgia games library. There the user can pick them and play them in browser.

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User Data

Server side

Install dependencies

cd ./server
npm install

.env file

Copy the .env.sample as .env and fill up the environment variable for your personal mongodb connecttion url.

Running the code

cd ./server
npm start

It will start the server with nodemon. So it will watch the changes and restart the server if some ot the files changed.

Testing with test.http

If you like to try the endpoints of the rest api, you can check the test.http file for urls are should work on your environment as well. And if you install the REST Client extenstion for vscode you can actually run those in your editor.

Client side

Install dependencies

cd ./client
npm install

Runnig the code

cd ./client
npm start

And the create-react-app react-scripts package will start your frontend on the 3000 port and you can visit the http://localhost:3000 on your preferred browser.