Full-Stack React Projects - Second Edition

Folder and file structure

As we go through our setup and implementation in the rest of this chapter, we will end up with the following folder structure containing files that are relevant to the MERN skeleton backend. With these files, we will have a functioning, standalone server-side application:

| mern_skeleton/   | -- config/      | --- config.js   | -- server/      | --- controllers/         | ---- auth.controller.js         | ---- user.controller.js      | --- helpers/         | ---- dbErrorHandler.js      | --- models/         | ---- user.model.js      | --- routes/         | ---- auth.routes.js         | ---- user.routes.js      | --- express.js      | --- server.js  | -- .babelrc  | -- nodemon.json  | -- package.json  | -- template.js  | -- webpack.config.server.js  | -- yarn.lock

We will keep the configuration files in ...