The app uses mongodb and this needs to be configured
We've used mongoose library for ODM and interacting with the db
On line 14, mongoose.connect(<mongodb-atlas-url>); you need to replace the url with your mongodb url
To setup a cloud mongodb, go to https://www.mongodb.com/atlas/database, setup a free tier db and get the connection link
Your URL should look something similar to this: mongodb+srv://<username>:<password>@mers-fs-app.xg3etjm.mongodb.net/<dbname>?retryWrites=true&w=majority;
Once you set this up, you can use node index.js from the server directory to bring up the backend server
To run the frontend server
cd client
Delete the package-lock.json
npm install to install the required dependencies
NODE_OPTIONS=--openssl-legacy-provider npm start to bring up the frontend server. The extra flag is to avoid some legacy dependency issue