lexis-back

Installation instructions

Add .env file to the root of the project. The file is listed in .gitignore and contains sensitive information that should never be checked to git. Add to the file the followong environmental variables: MONGO_HOST, MONGO_USER, MONGO_PASSWORD - for making a connection with your mongodb SESSION_SECRET - secret used for JWT generation and validation
run yarn install to install dependencies
run your mongod with the configurations specified in the .env file
Run redis server by executing

redis-server

If it is not yet install on your machine, isntall it by executing

sudo apt-get install redis-server

run yarn run devserver to start the local development server NOTES: If you do not have yarn, you can install it by npm install -g yarn (Yarn is better than NPM)

yarn test: start running test. Linter is run before test, so any lint-error must be cleared before you can start testing.