posts-express-api-app

Live link - https://posts-api-app.onrender.com/

Deployment link (private) - https://dashboard.render.com/web/srv-ck333mmru70s73b2db3g

The main goal is to build the backend. I copied the frontend from Udemy.

What is this app

1. The goal is to build a REST API (data) app.
2. There is a React frontend, but it's optional.
3. The API endpoints work independently too.

Code

• backend: root folder
• frontend: /frontend

To run

Advice: use pnpm especially for React. It's a very bad FE app I copied from Udemy - takes a very long time with 'npm'.

1. Do npm install at root folder, and inside /frontend.
2. To start frontend - npm run fe. To run be - npm run be.
3. To start both (e.g. at deployment machine) - run npm run serve

FE fuck up

FE code I copied is ancient, uses class components and takes more than 10 min to npm install.

• use pnpm
• Don't build it on the deploy site (render.com, AWS), instead build it locally and place it in (as) public/build. I've added gitignore exception for this.