/express-setup

This repo is meant to be cloned to help the basic setup for projects that will use express.

Primary LanguageJavaScript

Basic Express App Starter

Housekeeping

When cloning this repo, it will create a directory with the name “express-setup”, knowing that, you can clone this repo where you need it then rename the directory from “express-setup” to whatever you need. You can do that in the terminal by cd .. then mv express-setup/ {newName/}

TLDR: Clone this repo into the parent directory that you want, you should not make a directory for your app because cloning this repo will create one, make sure that you are one level up then mv express-setup/ {newName/}

You will need to delete the preexisting .git file so that you can git init this new project under a different directory name. You can run this line in the command line to delete the .git directory rm -rf .git

After closing, make sure to run npm install

Sequelize Setup

During the sequelize init, the following directories will be created: config, migrations and models.

  • You will need to set up a .env file which will hold the sensitive information that will connect this app to ElephantSQL
  • The sequelize init will create a config/config.js and the contents in this file will be incorrect because it is loading a JSON object but you will overwrite that with what the dist.env will have.

For more information Sequelize, if you go here you will start at the npx sequelize-cli init