To build flywheel, we utilized a React front end which communicates to our Node.js/Express backend API via HTTP Requests. Our server/API directly communicates with the database via Mongoose queries, and we chose MongoDB as our (NoSQL) cloud database.
Flywheel was deployed on Heroku, and can be accessed here.
The backend API was documented and tested using the Postman app. The documentation which was generated can be found here.
After you have cloned this git repository, please ensure you have npm and node.js installed. Next, please type
cd client
npm install
cd ..
npm installto install all necessary node modules as specified in the client and server's package.json and then type
npm run devto run both the backend API/server (on localhost:5000) and the frontend client (on localhost:3000).