jobify

Track Your Job Search

Project in Action - Jobify

Extensive documentation with examples here

Features

• Create mock data (Mockaroo) and populate the database using automated scripts.
• Use ES6 Modules on the back-end
• Setup "proxy" in create-react-app
• Build bunch of nice looking pages (Landing, Error, Register, Dashboard, etc)
• Setup nested pages and protected route using React Router 6
• Global context using createContext and utilize useContext hook
• Setup MongoDB database in the cloud (Atlas)
• Utilize "express-async-errors" package (eliminate use of try/catch blocks)
• Implement custom Error-Handling with personalized status codes
• Hash passwords & implement JWT for authentication and authorization
• Programmatically navigate using React Router 6
• Persist data in local storage
• Set JWT token in Postman programmatically
• Implement various Axios configurations(interceptors and custom fetch)
• Setup moment.js on the front-end and back-end
• Setup nice charts and cards
• Implement search/filter functionality along with pagination on the server and front-end
• API documentation using postman

Usage

Env Variables

Create a .env file in the root and add the following

NODE_ENV = development
PORT = 5000
MONGO_URI = your mongodb uri
JWT_SECRET = your secret key
JWT_LIFETIME = 1d

Install Dependencies (frontend & backend)

npm run install-dependencies

Run

# Run frontend (:3000) & backend (:5000) both using concurrently
npm start
# Run backend only
npm run server

Build & Deploy

# Create frontend prod build
npm run build-client

Seed Database

You can use the following commands to seed the database with some sample jobs as well as destroy all the jobs

# Import data
npm run i
# Destroy data
npm run d

Sample User Login
email - user@gmail.com
password - password