theianjones / remix-discussions

Remix Discussions

In this app we are going to build a social network out of 4 technologies:

• Remix for our web framework
• Prisma for our database abstraction
• Planet Scale for our serverless database
• Vercel for our hosting environment

We will make a group discussion app. Users will be able to create an account with email and password. They will be able to create a group and add their friends to it. They will be able to post their thoughts to the group.

Running In Development

There are two commands you need to run in two different terminals:

• yarn dev
• yarn dev:db

yarn dev starts the remix development server.

yarn dev:db starts the planetscale database. Pick the branch you want to work off of when you start the command.

This assumes you have pscale installed and you've logged in with the CLI.

Deployment

After having run the create-remix command and selected "Vercel" as a deployment target, you only need to import your Git repository into Vercel, and it will be deployed.

If you'd like to avoid using a Git repository, you can also deploy the directory by running Vercel CLI:

npm i -g vercel
vercel

It is generally recommended to use a Git repository, because future commits will then automatically be deployed by Vercel, through its Git Integration.

Development

To run your Remix app locally, make sure your project's local dependencies are installed:

npm install

Afterwards, start the Remix development server like so:

npm run dev

Open up http://localhost:3000 and you should be ready to go!

If you're used to using the vercel dev command provided by Vercel CLI instead, you can also use that, but it's not needed.