JWT token Error preventing backend api connection Node/Express MongoDB

Question

I am creating a blogging application using Node, Express and Next.js. I have successfully deployed the frontend portion of the application however I am running into an error when trying to connect to the backend server:

Error: secret should be set

Here is a link to my Github with all the code https://github.com/DragonKnightLeo/Blog-API

This is my first fullstack application so I am pretty junior at how all this works.

Answer 1

I just went through the code and tried to see if I can run your code in my local. Also, saw the error that is coming when you run the code in your logs above. Seems like you do not have a.env file or JWT_SECRET mentioned in your env file.

Try adding env file and use dotenv node module to bootstrap it along the server run.