Development.md

Development

To setup a development environment, do the following:

# git clone git@github.com:casefoundation/review-o-matic.git
# cd review-o-matic

Now open two terminal tabs/windows in the review-o-matic directory

Tab 1

This will be the tab where we run the backend node server:

# cd server
# npm install
# touch .env

Now open the .env file in your editor of choice and specify the variables required for your purposes. For a definition of each variable available, please see Environment Variables.

# node index.js

When this runs for the first time, it will check the database for user accounts. If the users table is empty, it will generate a new admin user account and output the login credentials to the command line.

Tab 2

This will be our front end React app tab:

# cd client
# npm install
# npm start

After that, the npm script will automatically open up a window with the application's frontend.

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For more documentation, visit the Getting Started guide.