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I want to run a working website on my local computer, but I don't see anything being displayed

I want to run a MERN app on my local computer and potentially make changes/play around with it. Here is the repo: https://github.com/Prince-Shivaram/online-grocerystore

What I did: I installed all the dependencies using the command npm install and started mongoDB. I launched the server with the command nodemon server.js.

The result No errors in the console nor in the browser. However, in my browser (localhost:5000), I don't see the website being displayed. Did I miss something? Is some part of the code wrong?

Let me know if my explanation is not clear enough or if more information is needed!

Any help is appreciated,

Thank you :)

Solution

  • Run npm install in the online-grocerystore folder and again in the front end folder.

    Run it using:

    npm run dev

    It says this on the github page:

    How to run locally?

    git clone https://github.com/Prince-Shivaram/online-grocerystore
cd online-grocerystore
npm install
cd frontend
npm install
# To run server you must have .env file in root project directory
# see below .env file structure and replace with your values
npm run dev
# project starts

    .env File Structure

    NODE_ENV = development
PORT = 5000
MONGO_URI = your mongodb uri
JWT_SECRET = 'xxxxx'
PAYPAL_CLIENT_ID = your paypal client id