Steps to run this MERN Stack app on your development server

1. Download the zip file, extract it and open the root folder in your code editor

2. open the terminal, go to server folder and run these commands

cd server

npm install

3. Open another terminal, go to public folder and run these commands

cd public

npm install

4. create a .env file and declare these variables at the root of server folder

REACT_APP_HOST = https://localhost:5000

5. create a .env file at the root of server folder and declare these variables

PORT = 5000

MONGO_URL = 'your mongo db url'

6. now inside public folder run

npm start

7. In another terminal go to server folder and run

node index.js