After cloning the repo to your local machine:
- If using a local MongoDB server make sure it's running.
- Rename
.env.example
to.env
and update the MongoDB connection string if needed. npm run init
- installs dependencies for both server and client.npm run dev
- starts the backend api server and the frontend React client.
The API Server should now be running at localhost:5000
and the React App at localhost:3000
.
Note: Currently, the frontend is just the default install from Create React App and does nothing.
Alternatively, the frontend and backend can be started separately with npm run server
and npm run client
.