Create full-stack apps with React and Express. Run your client and server, and do a restart of your database to have a full-stack project working in minutes.
You can follow these instructions and code along with the video - setup instructions working
Go to your source directory in your Terminal and run the command
git clone https://github.com/Yosolita1978/React-Express-PairProgramming.git NAMENEWDIRECTORY
To clean the original git history from your folder, run the command
rm -rf .git(you don't want to work with the forked git of the owner of this template)Run the command
git initto start your git repository
Go to the server folder in the project (
cd server) and run the commandnpm installInside your server folder, create a .env file with
touch .envInside your server folder, open the file
.env.exampleand copy the file there.Inside your .env file, paste the string from .env.example and change the variables with the values from the project. For this template, the name of your database is
techtonica1.
To restore the database dump file that the project already contains, just run the command
psql -U postgres -f db.sqlin your Terminal. Make sure that you have your Postgres password on hand as the psql console will ask you for it. If you configured your Postgres without a password, just run the commandpsql -f db.sqlRun the command
npm startto run your server and it should look like this:
- Go to the client folder (
cd ..andcd client) and run the commandnpm install - Both servers should now run with
npm start - Go to localhost:3000 and you should see something like this:
