osman-butt / nemlig-project-backend

Nemlig.com - 2nd semester project

Group project made by Benjamin, Gustav, Osman & Sham.

Deployed app

• See a live version of the app https://nemlig.onrender.com/
• Backend is deployed here https://nemlig-shop.onrender.com
• Frontend repository: https://github.com/osman-butt/nemlig-project-frontend

Create a MySQL database

• Download the database backup file from here
• Open up a terminal and type (when prompted, type in your password)

mysql -u [USERNAME] -p 

• Create a new database

CREATE DATABASE nemlig_db;

• Open up a new terminal and import the data:

mysqldump -u [USERNAME] -p nemlig_db < PATH_TO_FILE/BACKUP_FILE_NAME.sql

Installation

• Fork the repository by clicking the "Fork" button in the top right corner of the GitHub page.

or

• Clone the repository to your local machine using the following command in your terminal:

git clone https://github.com/osman-butt/nemlig-project-backend.git

• Install dependencies

npm install

• Create a .env file and paste the following

DATABASE_URL="mysql://[mysql_user]:[mysql_password]@localhost:3306/nemlig_db"
NODE_ENV="dev"
ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=
REFRESH_TOKEN_SECRET=

• To generate new access and refresh tokens run the following command in the terminal

node
require("crypto").randomBytes(64).toString("hex")

• Start up the backend server

npm start

Installation guide to the frontend can be found here