DIgital photoBook

Description

A digital photo gallery created by the nerds of 2023 KNUST Computer Engineering year group. It consist of three applications.

1. A photo gallery site
2. Admin apnel.
3. A server application.

Technical Details

Technologies used:

1. Vite React
2. Nodej Express framework for running a server.
3. Storybook for component development
4. Mongodb for database storage
5. Vercel and render for hosting
6. Yarn workspaces for monorepo management

Folder Structure (Monorepo)

1. apps contains the frontends
2. packages contains the shared components , utils and storybook preview
3. apps/server contains the server and database
4. apps/admin contains admin panel
5. apps/client contains the gallery
6. packages/uicore contains the shared components
7. packages/ui storybook preview for the shared components

How to run the project

1. Clone the repo
2. Run yarn install to install all dependencies
3. Create mongodb project and add the mongodb to the .env file

Note

Don't add new packages in the root of the monorepo.

Hosting on vercel

1. Create a vercel account
2. Create a project and link it to the github repo
3. Add .env to the vercel project environment variables

The command to build the project on vercel

1. specify the client directory in the repo
2. specify the admin directory in the repo
3. specify the ui directory in the repo