bwreDev / baby-book-api

Baby Book Api

This is the Express server API for my full stack capstone project.

It is utilized by my React client at baby-book-app.

Live production of the app can be found at https://baby-book-app.now.sh/.

Tech

This back end is built using Node.js, Express, and PostgreSQL

Built using my Express Boilerplate!

This is a boilerplate project used for starting new projects!

Set up

Complete the following steps to start a new project (NEW-PROJECT-NAME):

1. Clone this repository to your local machine git clone BOILERPLATE-URL NEW-PROJECTS-NAME
2. cd into the cloned repository
3. Make a fresh start of the git history for this project with rm -rf .git && git init
4. Install the node dependencies npm install
5. Move the example Environment file to .env that will be ignored by git and read by the express server mv example.env .env
6. Edit the contents of the package.json to use NEW-PROJECT-NAME instead of "name": "express-boilerplate",

Scripts

Start the application npm start

Start nodemon for the application npm run dev

Run the tests npm test

Migrate SQL server scripts npm run migrate

Migrate test SQL server scripts npm run migrate:test

Migrate production SQL server scripts npm run migrate:production

Run an audit and migrate to production, then push to production on Heroku npm run deploy

Deploying

When your new project is ready for deployment, add a new Heroku application with heroku create. This will make a new git remote called "heroku" and you can then npm run deploy which will push to this remote's master branch.