README.md

when-2-not-meet

A progressive web app that revolutionizes scheduling.

Setup Guide

The following steps should get you from 0 setup to being able to run and develop the code in this repo.

Install Node and PostgreSQL

1. Node: https://nodejs.org/en/
2. PostgreSQL: https://www.enterprisedb.com/downloads/postgres-postgresql-downloads

Create an environment variable for connecting to the database

1. Create a .env file in the root directory.
2. Go to our heroku database dashboard (or create your own) and retrieve the url within credentials
   • https://data.heroku.com/datastores/9652aa72-765f-4f82-a8ba-452a447b7c03#administration
3. Create a variable for the database url DATABASE_URL=DATABASE URL GOES HERE

Install dependencies

Just the commands (from root directory):

npm install
cd frontend && npm install && cd ..

1. Run npm install in the root directory.
2. Run npm install in the frontend directory.

Build and run

Just the commands (from root directory):

cd frontend && npm run-script build
cd .. && npm run dev

1. Build the frontend by running npm run-script build in the frontend directory.
2. Start the backend with hot-reloading by running npm run dev.