/react-project-starter

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Solo React Project

This is the backend for the Solo React project.

Getting started

  1. Clone this repository

  2. Install dependencies (npm install)

  3. Create a .env file based on the example with proper settings for your development environment

  4. Setup your PostgreSQL user, password and database and make sure it matches your .env file with CREATEDB privileges

  5. Run

    • npm run db:create
    • npm run db:migrate
    • npm run db:seed:all
    • npm start

Deploy to Heroku

  1. Create a new project
  2. Under Resources click "Find more add-ons" and add the add on called "Heroku Postgres"
  3. Install the Heroku CLI
  4. Run $ heroku login
  5. Add heroku as a remote to this git repo $ heroku git:remote -a <project_name>
  6. Push the project to heroku $ git push heroku master
  7. Connect to the heroku shell and prepare your database
    $ heroku run bash
    $ sequelize-cli db:migrate
    $ sequelize-cli db:seed:all

(You can interact with your database this way as youd like, but beware that db:drop should not be run in the heroku environment)

  1. Add a REACT_APP_BASE_URL config var. This should be the full URL of your react app: i.e. "https://solo-react.herokuapp.com"

  2. profit