MERN-template VS recog

Anyway, the structure of this website uses microservices, driven by an engine I dubbed the MERN-template. It has it's own auth service, and supports both chat and a news feed. The game-specific elements are closed-source though (the idea is you fork the core repo, and build out from there).

i use mariadb, but yes.

Backstory: Decade Jam, a game jam that lasts for a decade, began Jan 1st, 2020. I started writing a web game called Egg Trainer, but after a year of work realized that my codebase wasn't workable anymore. So at the beginning of 2021, I began working on a game engine that would power the beta version of ET - this is called the MERN-template (clearly, I'm bad at naming things).

My MERN-template actually uses MySQL. There's no requirement that you do it one specific way.

I'd use the MERN-template project that I wrote myself. It's essentially the mern stack, except with MySQL.

I've basically written this thing from the ground up, including an open source engine that uses microservices.

Anyway here's my game engine.

Oh, I've done this with my MERN-template. It was designed to power my game, but I made it available for others to use.

GitHub - Jenyus-Org/recog: Swiss school forum to connect business acquaintances across the country.

Authorization can be handled with two popular methods. Cookies or access tokens. Since you're using NextJS I recommend the latter. Generate refresh and access tokens on your server, but never request them from the frontend. Instead, use Next-Auth.js to login with the Credentials provider and store the tokens in the session. I have an example of that here. Give the pages/api/auth/[...nextAuth].ts file a look in particular.

I also founded a start-up this year, and we're working in collaboration with the schools in our country to build a community forum with job postings as well as some other features like tutorials and a marketplace. We hope to go into public alpha by May, it's called Recog and you can view the respective GitHub repositories for our frontend and backend here and here.

Actually, if you want to already see what that boilerplate will look like now, you can check out the Recog GitHub repository which I'll probably use as a base when I get around to it. It uses TypeORM with SQLite, so it should be as easy as forking the repo, installing the dependencies and then running the project.