Instead of cloning this project, click "Use this template". This will allow you to create a repo on github which has this project's content but which is not a fork of it.
Make sure you create the repo as being owned by your own account not by the WeAreAcademy organisation.
yarn
Copy .env.example to .env and set DATABASE_URL and PORT to your liking.
Example for a local database: DATABASE_URL=postgres://neill@localhost/pastebin
You will need to create your own databases for this project - one locally and one on Heroku.
yarn start:dev
This will set the env var LOCAL to true, which will cause the db connection configuration to NOT use SSL (appropriate for your local db)
When the project is deployed to heroku, the command in your Procfile file will be run.