FS-App-Template

Setup

To use this as boilerplate, you'll need to take the following steps:

• Don't fork or clone this repo! Instead, create a new, empty directory on your machine and git init (or create an empty repo on Github and clone it to your local machine)

• Now you will have to add the fs-app-template as a remote and merge it into your own repository.

git remote add boilermaker git@github.com:FullstackAcademy/fs-app-template.git
git fetch boilermaker
git merge boilermaker/main
git branch -m master main

Customize

Now that you've got the code, follow these steps to get acclimated:

• Update project name and description in package.json
• npm install
• Create two postgres databases (MY_APP_NAME should match the name parameter in package.json):
• These commands will create both your development and test databases

createdb <YOUR APP NAME HERE FROM package.json>
createdb <YOUR APP NAME HERE FROM package.json>-test

• By default, running npm test will use your test database, while regular development uses development database

Start

Sync and seed your database by running npm run seed. Running npm run start:dev will make great things happen!

• start:dev will both start your server and build your client side files using webpack
• start:dev:logger is the same as start:dev, but you will see your SQL queries (can be helpful for debugging)
• start:dev:seed will start your server and also seed your database (this is useful when you are making schema changes and you don't want to run your seed script separately)