Boilerplate setup guide

• update repo name from package.json
• to deploy on heroku add this script into package.json "heroku-postbuild": "npm run init:both && npm run build"

environment variables

on the root add .env including this

  # common
  NODE_ENV = development
  DEBUG = server

  # server
  SECRET = we-are-yalla
  PORT = 8080
  TOKEN_NAME = token
  TOKEN_MAX_AGE = 2592000000

  # database
  DATABASE_URL = postgres://<user_name>:<password>@localhost:5432/<db_name>
  DATABASE_URL_TEST = postgres://<user_name>:<password>@localhost:5432/<db_name>

Local DB setup

• on Terminal run psql or pgcli
• CREATE DATABASE <db_name>;
• CREATE USER <user_name> WITH SUPERUSER PASSWORD '<password>'
• GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE <db_name> TO <user_name>
• update the DATABASE_URL in .env

Sentry setup

for the backend

• get SENTRY_DNS from sentry account (for express)
• add it into .env file
• add it into the config

for the frontend

• get SENTRY_DSN from sentry account (for react app)
• add it into /client/.env REACT_APP_SENTRY_DSN = <dns>