React Express Multer Mongoose File Image Upload

This is a boilerplate project to upload images from React frontend to Mongo DB using Express server Multer middleware and Mongoose.

Running the project

1. create the uploads folder here "server/uploads"
2. create Mongo DB account on the www.mongodb.com website
3. create server/.env file and set up environment variables (take a look at .env.example):
   • MONGODB_URI
   • TEST_MONGODB_URI
   • PORT
   • SECRET

• run the server - cd server, npm run server
• run the client - cd client, npm start