A self hosted MERN quiz app for making learning fun and effective.

Since its self hosted you'll host the app on your own server aka localhost and your own database, so that none can view your credentials and private data, but it needs a bit more effort from you to work.

• Node
• NPM

1. Clone or download the experiment branch. It always has the latest commits.
2. Navigate to the client folder and install the dependencies by running npm i .
3. In the public folder create another folder named uploads , this is where all the uploaded files will be stored.
4. Navigate to the server folder and install its dependencies by running npm i .
5. Inside config folder create a file named config.env (its required as it contains all the configuration info for the app).
6. Create a mongodb atlas account and cloud cluster, and provide the url to the config.env file.
7. To start both the client and the server navigate to the respective directory and run npm start

MERN app for making killer quiz to enhance learning

Since its self hosted you'll host the app on your own server aka localhost and your own database, so that none can view your credentials and private data, but it needs a bit more effort from you to work.

Make sure your configuration file have the following key and value pairs separated by =

PORT =any valid port

NODE_ENV =development|production|testing

MONGO_URI =mongodb atlas cluster url

FILE_UPLOAD_SIZE =max file upload size in bytes

JWT_SECRET =any strong password

JWT_EXPIRE =see jwt documentation for more info, tldr; use day_number d to specify how many days the token will last

JWT_COOKIE_EXPIRE =same as JWT_EXPIRE without the d

Take a look at this file to see all the available features of the app and the api.

Take a look at this file to understand the rest api structure.

To generate a static graphql documentation, install graphqhdoc , navigate to the server dir and run graphdoc