Master the art of building a highly scalable real-world MERN project. This project is a demonstration of creating an architecture that can potentially serve millions of users and is inspired by a successful real-world app.
- Frontend: React and NextJS
- Backend: Node with Express
- Database: MongoDB (Using Mongo Atlas as Managed Database Service)
- Hosting and Services: AWS (S3 for file storage, SES for email, EC2 for hosting, IAM for identity and access management, Route 53 for domain management)
- User Authentication: User registration and login system.
- Content Hub: Users can post, manage, and share links to courses, videos, articles, etc.
- User Dashboard: A place where users can update or delete the links they've shared.
- Massive Storage System: Using AWS S3 for storing user uploaded images. It's scalable, reliable, and cost-effective.
- Email System: Using AWS SES for email notifications.
- Hosting: Backend API and Frontend are hosted on AWS EC2.
- Target millions of potential users.
- Built with content creators in mind: instructors, YouTubers, bloggers, book authors, and more.
- Drive organic traffic and engagement by allowing users to share their content.
- Scalability: Both storage and database solutions are built to scale.
- Cost-effective: Leveraging AWS services to keep operational costs low.
- Simplicity in architecture: Separate backend and frontend for maintainability.
- Clean and straightforward request/response cycle.
The repository is split into two main directories:
client: Contains all the frontend code built with React and NextJS.server: Houses the backend API built with Node and Express.
- Fetch data from the API and display it to the user.
- Handle tasks like creating a new post and displaying success or error messages based on API responses.
- Handle GET and POST routes for various functionalities.
- Process requests, interact with the database, and send appropriate responses back to the frontend.