This is the beginnibg of my DevLog into creating a MERN Stack Admin Dashboard.

Frontend will be using:

• Material UI to help with styling
• Material UI Data-Grid for Tables
• Nivo for Charts
• Redux Toolkit for State Management
• RTK Query to Make API Calls

Backend:

• Node.JS for Runtime
• Express JS for Backend Framework
• Mongoose for managing the Mongo DB

Backend Configuration

The first thing we need is to install the latest Node Version. To check whether or not we have Node installed on our system, just run the following command:

node -v

If you have it installed correctly, get the latest version by running:

sudo npm install -g npm@latest

The other dependencies are going to by thing like installing npx, and an IDE for now. Those things are pretty easy so we move on with the actual project itself.

Creating the Backend Folder

Create the folder for the backend called server and we will initialise it by running the following code inside it: