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Full-Stack React Projects

You're reading from   Full-Stack React Projects Modern web development using React 16, Node, Express, and MongoDB

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788835534
Length 470 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Shama Hoque Shama Hoque
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Preface 1. Unleashing React Applications with MERN FREE CHAPTER 2. Preparing the Development Environment 3. Building a Backend with MongoDB, Express, and Node 4. Adding a React Frontend to Complete MERN 5. Starting with a Simple Social Media Application 6. Exercising New MERN Skills with an Online Marketplace 7. Extending the Marketplace for Orders and Payments 8. Building a Media Streaming Application 9. Customizing the Media Player and Improving SEO 10. Developing a Web-Based VR Game 11. Making the VR Game Dynamic Using MERN 12. Following Best Practices and Developing MERN Further 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Updating the user profile

The skeleton application only has support for a user's name, email, and password. But in MERN Social we will allow users to add a description about themselves, and also upload a profile photo while editing the profile after signing up:

Adding an about description

In order to store the description entered in the about field by a user, we need to add an about field to the user model in server/models/user.model.js:

about: {
type: String,
trim: true
}

Then, to get the description as input from the user, we add a multiline TextField to the EditProfile form and handle the value change the same way we did for the user's name input.

mern-social/client/user/EditProfile.js:

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