100Devs Course Tracker

Database Setup

Set up MongoDB atlas string with an authorized user.
Create .env file
Copy and paste info from .env.example & fill in DB_PASSWORD and DB_USER that you created during mongo setup.
Add REACT_APP_BACKEND= to .env for backend endpoint (this should be set to http://localhost:5000/ currently).

Installing Yarn

Before you start using Yarn, you'll first need to install it on your system. There are many different ways to install Yarn, but a single one is recommended and cross-platform.

Install via npm

It is recommended to install Yarn on your system through the npm package manager, which comes bundled with Node.js when you install it on your system.

Once you have npm installed you can run the following both to install and upgrade Yarn.

npm install --global yarn

Alternative Installation Options

MacOS

Yarn install via Homebrew

You can install Yarn through the Homebrew package manager. This will also install Node.js if it is not already installed.

brew install yarn

Upgrade Yarn via Homebrew

Yarn will warn you if a new version is available. To upgrade Yarn, you can do so with Homebrew.

brew upgrade yarn

Windows

Yarn install via installer.

This will give you a .msi file that when run will walk you through installing Yarn on Windows.

If you use the installer you will first need to install Node.js.

Windows Notice

Please whitelist your project folder and the Yarn cache directory (%LocalAppData%\Yarn) in your antivirus software, otherwise installing packages will be significantly slower as every single file will be scanned as it’s written to disk.

Check installation

Check that Yarn is installed by running the following command

yarn --version

I have Yarn installed successfully now what?

Running the project locally

Clone this repository locally

git clone https://github.com/100devs/course-tracker.git

Install the dependencies. Inside the root

yarn install

Available Scripts

In the project root directory, you can run:

yarn client

Runs the app in the development mode.
Open http://localhost:3000 to view it in the browser.

yarn build

Builds the app for production to the build folder.
It correctly bundles React in production mode and optimizes the build for the best performance.

yarn server

Runs the server in the development mode.
Open http://localhost:5000 to view it in the browser.

yarn dev

Runs the client and server scripts to run in parallel.