timbatt / contest-api

Express API for my contest app: https://github.com/JamminCoder/contest-client

Contest API

Contest API for my full-stack contest app.

To run:

1. Install MongoDB
2. Create MongoDB database to use for the contests. Make sure the name is the same as DB_NAME in db.js
3. Run npm install to install the package dependancies.
4. Run node generateEnv.js to generate the .env file that contains the port and app secret key.
5. Then run node app.js or nodemon app.js to run the API server.

Now you can download and configure the client