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Full-Stack React Projects

By : Shama Hoque
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Full-Stack React Projects

By: Shama Hoque

Overview of this book

The benefits of using a full JavaScript stack for web development are undeniable, especially when robust and widely adopted technologies such as React, Node, and Express and are available. Combining the power of React with industry-tested, server-side technologies, such as Node, Express, and MongoDB, creates a diverse array of possibilities when developing real-world web applications. This book guides you through preparing the development environment for MERN stack-based web development, to creating a basic skeleton application and extending it to build four different web applications. These applications include a social media, an online marketplace, a media streaming, and a web-based game application with virtual reality features. While learning to set up the stack and developing a diverse range of applications with this book, you will grasp the inner workings of the MERN stack, extend its capabilities for complex features, and gain actionable knowledge of how to prepare MERN-based applications to meet the growing demands of real-world web applications.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Uploading and storing media


Registered users on MERN Mediastream will be able to upload videos from their local files to store the video and related details directly on MongoDB using GridFS.

Media model

In order to store media details, we will add a Mongoose Schema for the media model in server/models/media.model.js with fields to record the media title, description, genre, number of views, created time, updated time, and reference to the user who posted the media.

mern-mediastream/server/models/media.model.js:

import mongoose from 'mongoose'
import crypto from 'crypto'
const MediaSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
  title: {
    type: String,
    required: 'title is required'
  },
  description: String,
  genre: String,
  views: {type: Number, default: 0},
  postedBy: {type: mongoose.Schema.ObjectId, ref: 'User'},
  created: {
    type: Date,
    default: Date.now
  },
  updated: {
    type: Date
  }
})

export default mongoose.model('Media', MediaSchema)

MongoDB GridFS to store large files

In previous...