briankeane / template-for-zach

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This is a template for creating a monorepo with a React frontend and a Node.js backend.

Installation

1. Clone this repo
2. Create a new repo and push the code
3. Login to Heroku and create a new pipeline with a staging and production api and web service.
4. Add a these buildpacks: https://github.com/timanovsky/subdir-heroku-buildpack, heroku/node.js -- the subdir buildpack needs to come first.
5. Add PROJECT_PATH=services/server to the api Heroku env variables and PROJECT_PATH=services/website to the react Heroku app.
6. Login to CircleCI and follow your new repo
7. Add HEROKU_APP_NAME and HEROKU_API_KEY env variables to the new CircleCI project settings. (heroku profile/account settings/ towards the bottom)
8. Use CircleCI to generate an api token and add adjust the environments table below (in this README) to use the new token and the new addresses

Developing

1. make sure there is a .env file at services/server/.env -- even if it is empty
2. type docker-compose up

This will fire up the Node.js api on port 10020 and the react app on port 10060.

Important commands

run server tests:

docker-compose exec server yarn test

reset server test db:

docker-compose exec server yarn build

Environments

Environment	Branch	URL	CI	Documentation
Development	develop	https://template-for-zach-staging.herokuapp.com
Production	master	https://template-for-zach.herokuapp.com