MERN Task Manager

A MERN application for basic tasks management.

User-side features

• Signup
• Login
• Logout
• Add tasks
• View tasks
• Update tasks
• Delete tasks

Developer-side features

• Toasts for success and error messages
• Form validations in frontend and backend
• Fully Responsive Navbar
• Token based Authentication
• Use of 404 page for wrong urls
• Relevant redirects
• Global user state using Redux
• Custom Loaders
• Use of layout component for pages
• Use of theme colors
• No external CSS files needed (made using Tailwind CSS)
• Usage of Tooltips
• Dynamic document titles
• Redirect to previous page after login
• Use of various React hooks
• Custom hook also used (useFetch)
• Routes protection
• Middleware for verifying the user in backend
• Use of different HTTP status codes for sending responses
• Standard pratices followed

Tools and Technologies

• HTML
• CSS
• Javascript
• Tailwind CSS
• Node.js
• Express.js
• React
• Redux
• Mongodb

Dependencies

Following are the major dependencies of the project:

• axios
• react
• react-dom
• react-redux
• react-router-dom
• react-toastify
• redux
• redux-thunk
• bcrypt
• cors
• dotenv
• express
• jsonwebtoken
• mongoose

Dev-dependencies

Following are the major dev-dependencies of the project:

• nodemon
• concurrently

Prerequisites

• Node.js must be installed on the system.
• You should have a MongoDB database.

Installation and Setup

1. Install all the dependencies

   npm run install-all

2. Create a file named ".env" inside the backend folder. Add data from .env.example file and substitute your credentials there.

3. Start the application

   npm run dev

4. Go to http://localhost:3000

npm scripts

At root:

• npm run dev: Starts both backend and frontend
• npm run dev-server: Starts only backend
• npm run dev-client: Starts only frontend
• npm run install-all: Installs all dependencies and dev-dependencies required at root, at frontend and at backend.

Inside frontend folder:

• npm start: Starts frontend in development mode
• npm run build: Builds the frontend for production to the build folder
• npm test: Launches the test runner in the interactive watch mode
• npm run eject: This will remove the single build dependency from the frontend.

Inside backend folder:

• npm run dev: Starts backend using nodemon.
• npm start: Starts backend without nodemon.