📓 Notion Clone

Create and Edit Notes like in Notion

This clone tries to replicate some of the great note-taking features Notion has. If you don't know Notion.so yet, I highly recommend to check it out!

📌 Live Demo: notion-clone.kmuenster.com

📌 Medium Article: How To Build A Text Editor Like Notion

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Features

• Slash Commands (Type / to turn the block into different content types)
• HTML Support (Use regular HTML tags like <a> in text blocks)
• Image Support (Upload images by using the /image command)
• Drag And Drop (Reorder blocks easily by drag and drop)
• Guest Editing (Anyone can create public pages and share them via link)
• User Management (Create an account to create private pages)
• Scheduled Jobs (Delete inactive pages and accounts automatically)

Tech Stack

The frontend is built with Next.js and fully server-side rendered. On the backend, a REST API handles saving user content and user management.

Frontend

Next.js · React.js · SCSS/SASS

Backend

Express.js · MongoDB with Mongoose · Nodemailer · JWT (Cookie-based)

Installation

1. Clone the project

    git clone https://github.com/konstantinmuenster/notion-clone.git
    cd notion-clone

2. Add environment variables

   Backend: Create an .env file in the backend directory:

   FRONTEND_URL="http://localhost:3000"
   DOMAIN="localhost"
   JWT_KEY="yourSecretForTokenGeneration"
   PORT=8080
   MONGO_URI="mongodb+srv://username:[email protected]/database?retryWrites=true&w=majority"
   MAIL_HOST="smtp.sendgrid.net"
   MAIL_PORT=465
   MAIL_USER="apiKey"
   MAIL_SENDER="Your Name <[email protected]>"
   MAIL_PASSWORD="yourSendGridApiKey"
   

   Frontend: Create an .env.local file in the frontend directory:

   NEXT_PUBLIC_API="http://localhost:8080"
   

3. Install and run backend (http://localhost:8080)

   cd backend
   npm install
   npm start

4. Install and run frontend (http://localhost:3000)

   cd frontend
   npm install
   npm run dev

About

Konstantin Münster – konstantin.digital – [email protected]

Distributed under the MIT license. See LICENSE for more information.

https://github.com/konstantinmuenster