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cloudShare Backend

An API to share files with friends, family, students, teachers, groups, etc. <br>
You can use this project to implement your front-end project for file sharing API.

Features

  • Transfer files online to anyone.
  • Send an Email to the Recipient
  • Share file link to Recipient

Requirements

For development, you will only need Node.js and a node global package, Yarn,
installed in your environment.

Node

  • Node installation on Windows

    Just go on official Node.js website and download the installer. Also, be sure to have git available in your PATH, npm might need it (You can find git here).

  • Node installation on Ubuntu

    You can install nodejs and npm easily with the apt install, just run the following commands.

    $ sudo apt install nodejs
    $ sudo apt install npm
    
  • Other Operating Systems

    You can find more information about the installation on the official Node.js website and the official NPM website.

If the installation was successful, you should be able to run the following command.

$ node --version
v8.11.3

$ npm --version
6.1.0

If you need to update npm, you can make it using npm! Cool right? After running the following command, just open again the command line and be happy.

$ npm install npm -g

Yarn installation

After installing node, this project will need yarn too, so just run the following command.

  $ npm install -g yarn

Install

$ git clone https://github.com/harikanani/cloudShare-backend.git
$ cd cloudShare-backend
$ yarn install
        or
$ npm install

Configure app

Open the.env.example file and then edit it with your settings. You will need:

Running the project

$ yarn start
        or
$ npm run start

Your app should now be running on localhost:5000.

Deploying to Heroku

heroku create
git push heroku master
heroku open

Alternatively, you can deploy your own copy of the app using the web-based flow:

Deploy to Heroku

Support

star 🌟 this project

Credit goes to Codersgyan YouTube channel