Environment is a mess

[Pyxidatol-C]

Description

• the build/ folder is committed so that the application is available upon push on heroku
• for the convenience of development, the frontend and backend are hosted in different locations and communicate via CORS; for this to work, all occurrences offetch('/path', ...) need to be changed to fetch('http://127.0.0.1:5000/path', ...) during development and the other way around when deploying

Proposal

• move package.json to top-level, so that we can use heroku's nodejs buildpack
• in React, test if process.env.NODE_ENV !== "production" and modify the fetch location accordingly

[Pyxidatol-C]

building via heroku ps:exec doesn't persist after dyno refreshes.