rstruthers1 / hacktank

Hack Tank

Database

• Uses MySQL
• Dump of database is in ./dbscripts/hacktank.dump.sql

Running MySQL locally

• Download MySQL server and install
• create a database called hacktank.
• Import the dump of the database into the hacktank database.
• Create a file in the root directory called .env
• Add the following environmental variable to the .env file:

HACKDB_URL=mysql://<user>:<password>@<host>:<port>/hacktank?ssl-mode=REQUIRED

DO NOT COMMIT THE .env FILE!

Run locally

The following command runs both the node server and react client.

npm run dev

Resources

• Heroku getting started
• BezKoder: React + Node.js Express: User Authentication with JWT example
• Create React App
• React Bootstrap
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• Canva Free Online AI Image Generator