Comp680FSWeb

File Sharing Website

Description

Project Description

This project is designed to be a File Sharing Website (FSWeb) that allows users to:

• upload documents to an online storage
• we intend to add compression options based on the file type being uploaded
• download documents from the same online storage (we will be decompressing the data upon download request)

Note

The data uploaded is visible by ANY authenticated user. This is not a private data storage service.

Tech Stack

We are utilizing the MERN stack:

• MongoDB for the database
• Express.JS for the backend
• React.JS for the frontend
• Node.JS for the backend

A future development is to make the website serverless (hosted on the cloud).

Structure

File Structure

.
├──client
│   ├──...
│   └──...
├──Documentation
│   ├──Sample
│   │   ├──Images
│   │   └──sample.tex
│   ├──Sprint1
│   │   ├──Images
│   │   └──sample.tex
│   └──Sprint2
│       ├──Images
│       └──sample.tex
├──Presentations
│   └──Presentation1.pptx
├──server
│   ├──...
│   └──...
└──Readme.md

The "client" folder runs the frontend of the app

The "server" folder runs the backend of the app

Installation

NPM

run the following commands in order to set up the client and server properly.

For client:

cd ./client
npm install

For server:

cd ./server
npm install

Additionally, you will need to connect the server to a mongoDB database using the .env file. To be more specific, you will need the .env to contain the variable MONGO_URI configured to your database with associated Username and Password.

Docker

Install docker, add the .env file as mentioned before, and run

docker compose up -d

This brings up containers.

Legal

The content stored in the database is not representative of the ideas of the developers. They are also not legally binding to us as developers. We offer a service and are not legally responsible if users abuse it.