Postitt Setup

This is an example of how to set up the dev environment to work on Postitt.

Setting up environment variables:

At the moment, there are 2 .env files for both repositories.

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Back End

Syntax	Value
PORT	5000
NODE_ENV	development
APP_URL	http://localhost:5000
JWT_SECRET	"secret"
ORIGIN	http://localhost:3000

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Front End

Syntax	Value
NEXT_PUBLIC_SERVER_BASE_URL	http://localhost:5000
NEXT_PUBLIC_CLIENT_BASE_URL	http://localhost:3000

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Connecting the server to your local Postgres instance:

In Back-End/ormconfig.json make sure you have the correct port, database, username and password for TypeORM to connect to Postgres.

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Starting the server and client

Clone both repositories into any folder so they are like this:

Postitt-io
│
└──>Front-End
│
└──>Back-End

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For the following commands, make sure your current directory is:

$~\Postitt-io\Back-End

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Run the migration on the database to set up the tables correctly:

npm run typeorm migration:run

If you'd like some sample data to work with, you can seed the database with:

npm run seed

Then you can run the below command. This will start both the client and the server at the same time.

npm run dev

Access the dev site at localhost:3000

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Happy coding!