Template for Backend Express
The Golden Rule: 🦸 🦸♂️ Stop starting and start finishing. 🏁
If you work on more than one feature at a time, you are guaranteed to multiply your bugs and your anxiety.
Scripts
| command | description |
|---|---|
npm start |
starts the app - should only be used in production as changes will not get reloaded |
npm run start:watch |
runs the app using nodemon which watches for changes and reloads the app |
npm test |
runs the tests once |
npm run test:watch |
continually watches and runs the tests when files are updated |
Database Setup Commands
All the following commands can be run on the local database or the test database. To run them on the test database, append :test to the command
| command | description |
|---|---|
npm run db:reset |
drops, creates and seeds the database locally |
npm run db:drop |
drops the database locally |
npm run db:setup |
creates the database locally |
npm run db:seed |
seeds the database locally |
Heroku Setup
Add your Postgres add-on and set the environment variable PGSSLMODE to require. Then in your terminal run npm run heroku:setup -- -a <name of your heroku app> This should run the setup sql on your production postgres.