Mini-Social-Network

This is a mini social network web application built using MERN (MongoDB, Express, React, Node) stack. It allows users to sign up, create a profile, search for other users, view their profiles, and add or remove friends. The application also has a feature to show the list of mutual friends between users.

Features

*User authentication (sign up, sign in, sign out)

*User profile creation

*User search functionality

*Add or remove friends

*View mutual friends

Installation

1.Clone the repository to your local machine

2.Install dependencies by running npm install in the project server directory and the client directory

3.Create a .env file in the server directory of the project with the following variables:

4.MONGO_URI - your MongoDB connection string

5.JWT_SECRET - your JSON Web Token secret key

6.nodemon ./index.js from server directory to start the server

7.npm start from client directory to start client

Technologies Used

*MongoDB - a document-oriented NoSQL database

*Express - a Node.js web application framework

*React - a JavaScript library for building user interfaces

*Node.js - a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine

*JSON Web Token (JWT) - a standard for securely transmitting information between parties as a JSON object Contributing

Contributions are welcome! If you find any issues or have any suggestions for improvement, please open an issue or submit a pull request.