M.E.R.N Passport MySQL

DEMO on Heroku, the dyno may take up to 15 seconds on first reques, please be patient.

Node.js using the Express framework with a React client application using MySQL to log the user in with passport with the passport-local strategy using a username and password. Using bootstrap for basic UI with React-bootstrap

My intentions creating this repository was to learn passport, as well as create a good amount of example code for others to help them create a successful user login system with mysql express react and node.js. Not the Sequelize ORM that would take some modifications to setup.

Getting Started

Currently to run the application you will need to:

• Clone the repository locally

git clone https://github.com/Vincent440/passport-mern-sql.git

• Create a .env File and store all the database connection information, Or any other environment variables that will change depending on where the application is hosted.

Option 1

echo

Update the command with your specific environment and copy and run it to create a .env file with the key value pairs required to run the application.

echo PORT=3001 >> .env && echo DB_NAME=passportmern >> .env && echo DB_HOST=localhost >> .env && echo DB_USER=root >> .env && echo DB_PORT=3306 >> .env && echo DB_PW=<your password here> >> .env && echo MY_SECRET=your-most-secret-of-secrets-here >> .env

Option 2

create the .env file

touch .env

Then copy and paste the key values in and update them with your local config

# Port to host application on.
PORT=3001

# Name of the mysql database you will be connecting to.
DB_NAME='passportmern'

# Host name for connecting to MySQL database
DB_HOST='localhost'

#Port to connect to MySQL database
DB_PORT=3306

# User for connecting to MySQL database
DB_USER='root'

# Password for connecting to MySQL database
DB_PW='database-password'

# Secret for cookies/sessions
MY_SECRET='your-most-secret-of-secrets-here'

• Using yarn to pull in the required packages:

yarn install

If you do not have yarn you could use npm, but you'd need to update the scripts in the package.json file to reflect the usage of npm instead of yarn.

• Run the Database schema.sql to set up the database structure.

passport-mern-sql/config/schema.sql

• Run the Database seeds.sql file

passport-mern-sql/config/seeds.sql

Then you should be all set to start making changes to the application.

Hosting the application

In order to deploy this application:

you will need to ensure have a mysql database attached to your server. The way this application is set up the .env variables will need to match how the local database .env variables are set up.

I used Heroku to deploy my application. to do the same you will need to:

• Have a Heroku account or create one.
• assuming you have an account. log in to the Heroku website.
• Create a new app and name it whatever you would like to match your applications initial Heroku url.
• Open your application name from the dashboard on Heroku's website and select Deploy
• Select Github and login to Github to connect your account to Heroku
• After succesfully connecting to Github connect the app to the github repository
  • Select the Github account you are using and search for the repository using the search box provided.
  • If you searched successfully you will see the repository you are looking for and have a Connect button.
  • After pressing Connect you have the option to either select a branch and setup automatic deployments or manually deploy whenever you want to test your latest build in a branch. up to you.

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Created with ❤️ by Vincent Shury.