This server application is written to communicate with a React front end, which you can download here: https://github.com/stuart-gill/react-comments
Install nodemon:
Then, while in the postgres-api directory, you can run:
For a hot reloaded server on port 3000.
Please build a Postgres table on your local machine for this project, with the following fields and types:
[{field: id, type: text, nullable: false}, {field: comment, type: text, nullable: true, default: NULL}, {field: timestamp, type: timestamp with time zone, nullable: false, default: now()}, {field: first_name, type: character varying, nullable: true, default: NULL}}
Serve this database locally using the following inputs (or else change the inputs in the server.js file to match your local database): port: 5432, password: "Utterance5", database: "comments", host: "localhost", user: "postgres", max: 10
I used SQLPro for Postgres and pgAdmin3 LTS by BigSQL for database management on this project.