Storefront Backend Project

Prerequisites

Your machine must have the following installed on it:

• Node/NPM (8.1.0)

Install Dependencies

npm install

Database Setup (postgresSQL)

• Database info:

• Host: 127.0.0.1
• Database user: "project"
• Database name: "the_project"
• Test database name: "the_project_test"

• Database setup:

  CREATE USER project WITH PASSWORD 'pass111' SUPERUSER;
  CREATE DATABASE the_project OWNER project ENCODING UTF8; 
  CREATE DATABASE the_project_test OWNER project ENCODING UTF8; 
 

Environment variables

• Create a .env file and copy the following into it:

NODE_ENV=dev

DP_PORT=5432
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_NAME=the_project
DB_TEST_NAME=the_project_test
DB_USER=project
DB_PASSWORD=pass111
JWT_SECRET = my_secret

2. DB Creation and Migrations

npm run migrate:up

3. Starting the project

npm start

4. Running the tests

npm test

Any by now you should be able to go to localhost:8000 to test that everything is working as expected.