🚀 Capstone Boilerplate

A template for building web applications using the PERN (PostgreSQL, Express.js, React, Node.js) stack.

🏁 Getting Started

1. 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)

2. Add this template as a remote and merge it into your own repository

git remote add boilermaker git@github.com:FullstackAcademy/capstone-app-template.git
git fetch boilermaker
git merge boilermaker/main

3. Install packages

npm i

4. Add a .env file with your secret value for auth

JWT_SECRET='somesecretvalue'

5. Create the database

createdb your-database-name

6. Update src/server/db/client.js to reflect the name of your database

const connectionString = process.env.DATABASE_URL || 'https://localhost:5432/your-database-name';

7. Seed the database

npm run seed

8. Start the server

npm run dev

9. Open your browser at http://localhost:3000

10. Build something cool! 😎