Blerdeblurb was created by Elwyn Palmerton in 2020 as project for learning and practicing React. It was was modeled roughly after Twitter and designed to have a similar functionality with its own style. In 2022 it was redeployed on AWS.

The Blerdeblurb frontend was created with React, Material-UI, and Redux. It uses JWT's for login and authentication.

The Blerdeblurb backend was built with Node.js and MongoDB.

Blerdeblurb is deployed on AWS with the following services

Frontend:

• S3
• CodeCommit
• CodeBuild: Builds and deploys the artifact to the S3 bucket
• Route 53
• AWS Certificate Manager
• CloudFront: Caching and SSL certificate.

Backend:

• ElasticBeanstalk - deploys to EC2 instances with an Application Load Balancer.
• ACM and Route 53 - for managing SSL and domain name.
• CodeCommit and CodePipeline for deployment.

Blerdeblurb can be run locally with or without docker.

NOTE: To run locally with docker you need to have docker installed. Consult the docker documentation for more information.

1. Clone both repos into the same folder so that the folder structure looks like this:

Blerdeblurb
├── API
├── client

Clone frontend: git clone https://github.com/ElwynPalmerton/Blerdeblerb-client.git
Clone backend: git clone https://github.com/ElwynPalmerton/Blerdeblerb-API.git

(NOTE: the spelling of the repo names (blerdeblerb) is different than the URL )

2. Navigate into the root level folder for the API repo

3. Run docker-compose up -d --build from the command line.

4. To stop: run docker-compose stop

To run Blerdeblurb locally, you need to clone and run both repos:

Running the frontend:

1. Run git clone https://github.com/ElwynPalmerton/Blerdeblerb-client.git from the command line.
2. cd into the root level of the repo and run npm install.
3. Run npm start.

backend:

1. Run git clone https://github.com/ElwynPalmerton/Blerdeblerb-API.git from the command line.
2. Run npm start from inside the root level of the repo.

MongoDB:

You also need to install MongoDB locally to run Blerdeblurb.

1. Check to see if you have mongoDB installed locally by running mongo --version.
2. If you need to install mongoDB please consult the MongoDB Documentation
3. Start mongoDB by running mongod.