MERN Projects for Beginners: Create Five Social Web Apps Using MongoDB, Express.js, React, and Node

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N. BiswasMERN Projects for Beginnershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7138-4_5

5. Building a Photo-Based Social Network with MERN

Nabendu Biswas¹  

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Bhopal, India

 

In this chapter, you are going to build an awesome photo-based social network using the MERN framework. The back end is hosted in Heroku, and the front-end site is hosted using Firebase. The authentication functionality is also handled by Firebase.

Material-UI provides the icons in the project. Pusher is used since MongoDB is not a real-time database like Firebase. You want the posts to reflect the moment someone hits the Submit button.

With this functional photo-based social network, you can upload ...