development.md

Prerequisites

If you wish to run this app without installing/running a database, you can easily do so. Read more here.

MongoDB

Install MongoDB as your database

# Update brew formulae
brew update
# Install MongoDB
brew install mongodb

If you hate MongoDB with a passion and would like to see a postgresql example, check this out!

Setup your mongoDB directory

Note: Make sure you have the directory and its permissions setup (i.e. /data/db):

sudo mkdir -p /data/db
sudo chown -R `id -u` /data/db

Run your mongoDB server

mongod

Build & Dev

Installation

Yarn

yarn install

npm

# Install node modules - this includes those for production and development
# You only need to do this once :)
npm install

Development

## Note: You need MongoDB running
# Starts the server with Hot Reloading
# Run webpack through webpack.config.dev-client.js and webpack.config.dev-server.js
npm run dev

Production

Run the commands below for a production build, i.e. what is deployed to Heroku. If you are deploying to Heroku or similar, we assume that you are serving the pages over HTTPS.

## Note: You need MongoDB running

# Clean public folder
# Run webpack through webpack.config.prod.js
# Start server
npm start