jimberlage / ThingsToDo

Person passion project that I want to sell one day

Things To Do App

About

This is a simple web application to help users find a new and interesting thing to do. The user can also use lists to track what things they want to do, and mark them as completed. Users can also create custom descriptions on existing things to do, write descriptions, upvote and downvote those descriptions, and post experiences that thay have done with that thing to do.

About the Stack

Backend

• Express.js
• Sequelize
• PostgreSQL

Frontend

• React.js
• Redux
• Tailwind

How to run

Pre-reqs:

• The latest version of PostgreSQL must be installed
• Node 16 or newer must be used

Steps to run

1. Clone the project and CD into the backend directory
2. Run npm install -y
3. Configure a .env file according to the .env.example file
4. Configure a .sequelizerc file according to the .sequelizerc.example file. If that is not working reference the Sequelize documentation
5. Create a user in the DB with CreateDB permissions
6. Run the following commands a. npx dotenv sequelize db:create b. npx dotenv sequelize db:migrate c. npx dotenv sequelize db:seed:all
7. Run npm run start to start the app