Beginning
After cloning the repository, run the following command inside the root ( ./ ) directory, then insiside the ./backend/ directory :
npm install
Inside the ./backend/ directory, create a .env file and set the ATLAS_URI to the one you will use.
Something like:
ATLAS_URI=mongodb+srv://user:password@cluster0-v0g0t0.gcp.mongodb.net/test?retryWrites=true&w=majority
After that, installing the dependencies, make sure to first start the express server. On the terminal, from the root (./) directory, run the following command:
cd backend && nodemon server.js
(this is because we are using nodemon to watch for file changes in our server.js file inside the ./backend/ directory. Normally this is used only for development)
Then open a new terminal on the root ( ./ ) directory, and run the following command:
npm start
This will start the application that will be using the responses from the server. I'm using Axios.
You should now be able to see the app running on http://localhost:3000