BeX - A Book Exchange Platform

BeX is an all-in-one book exchange platform that allows people to share books with other people.

This project was made by Abhiram K for a full stack application development assignment at uni.

Here's what it does

• Allows you to create accounts on the platform.
• You can upload the books you have so people can search for them.
• People can reach out to you to request to borrow your books.
• There is integrated chat to help facilitate communication between parties.

Environment Variables

Make sure these are available in a .env file in both projects.

Backend

DATABASE_URL="<postgres database url>"
JWT_SECRET="<add a suitable secret here>"

Frontend

JWT_SECRET="<add a suitable secret here>"
BACKEND_HOST="http://localhost:3000"