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https://github.com/orang-utan/ts-boilerplate

🚀🤩 Dead simple monorepo boilerplate web project designed to take you from Git Cloning to Heroku Deployment in less 5 minutes. Tech Stack: TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Express, MongoDB.
https://github.com/orang-utan/ts-boilerplate

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🚀🤩 Dead simple monorepo boilerplate web project designed to take you from Git Cloning to Heroku Deployment in less 5 minutes. Tech Stack: TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Express, MongoDB.

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# TS-Boilerplate

![demo](docs/images/demo.png 'Demo')

Dead simple monorepo boilerplate web project designed to take you from Git Cloning to Heroku Deployment in less 5 minutes. 🚀🤩

It is built using the TypeScript, React, Express, Mongoose, MongoDB stack. If you want to checkout an example project based on TS-Boilerplate, check out [TS-Canvas](https://github.com/orang-utan/ts-canvas).

## Features

Essentially, here're some of its features:

- JWT-based user authentication / authorization system
- Silent refresh / access token retrieval
- Clean mono-repo structure with Express Server and React Client
- Code linting setup according to Airbnb standards
- Able to connect to MongoDB and WebSockets
- Pretty UI using Bulma and Styled Components
- Easy deployability on Heroku (literally 3 steps, it's really easy)

## Setting Up

#### Recommended Tools Checklist

- Git Clone this repository
- Create a [MongoDB Atlas Account](https://www.mongodb.com/cloud/atlas)
- Create a [Heroku account](https://www.heroku.com/)
- Install [Node.JS](https://nodejs.org/en/download/)
- Install [Yarn Package Manager](https://classic.yarnpkg.com/en/docs/install/#mac-stable)

#### Installing Requirements

```bash
$ git clone https://github.com/Orang-utan/ts-boilerplate.git
$ cd ts-boilerplate
$ yarn setup
```

##### Configuring Enviromental Variable

Create file called ".env.development" in root directory, it should look like the following:

```
ATLAS_URI=mongodb-connection-string-placeholder
JWT_SECRET=my-secret-jwt-key-placeholder
```

Then, create another file called ".env" in "src/client", it should look like the following:

```
REACT_APP_API_URL="http://localhost:5000"
```

#### Running Project

```bash
$ # run both server and client
$ yarn dev
$ # run server only
$ yarn server
$ # run client only
$ yarn client
```

#### To Deploy

Deploying this project on Heroku is dead simple. Basically, go on Heroku and create a new Heroku app, connect your project Github to your new Heroku app, and hit Deploy. Note, that you will need to configure the enviromental variable under settings.

## Todo
- [ ] Account Confirmation / Password Reset (SendGrid)
- [ ] Migrate Project from MongoDB to PostgreSQL
- [ ] Refactor Backend to CLEAN architecture
- [ ] File upload functionality
- [ ] CRUD Operations Demo
- [ ] Dockerize + Kubernetes Infrastructure