This repo is a clone of Ben Awad's lireddit app that he built during his 14h tutorial on Youtube.

However, this version uses Prisma instead of TypeORM for database access.

Usage

1. Clone the repo

git clone git@github.com:nikolasburk/lireddit.git
cd lireddit

2. Set up server and database

To set up the server, you need to install the npm dependencies and configure your environment variables.

2.1. Install the npm dependencies

cd server
npm install

2.2. Set environment variables

Open .env and adjust the environment variables to match the setup on your own machine.

2.3. Set up database and create tables

This project uses PostgreSQL as a database and assumes that you already have a PostgreSQL database server running. If you don't have a PostgreSQL database server running right now, you can use SQLite instead (expand below for setup instructions).

To create your database tables, you can use Prisma Migrate via the following commands:

npx prisma migrate save --create-db --name "init" --experimental 
npx prisma migrate up --experimental

Expand if you don't have a PostgreSQL database server

You can use SQLite instead of PostgreSQL for a faster setup. To do so, open the server/prisma/schema.prisma file and adjust the datasource configuration to look as follows:

datasource db {
  provider = "sqlite"
  url      = "file:./dev.db"
}

Now you can run the same commands and a new SQLite database file will be created for you:

npx prisma migrate save --create-db --name "init" --experimental 
npx prisma migrate up --experimental

2.4. Generate Prisma Client

npx prisma generate

2.5. Start the server

npm run dev2

3. Set up web frontend

To start the app, you have to navigate into the web directory, install dependencies and run the app.

cd ../web
npm install
npm run dev

4. Use the app

You can use the app at http://localhost:3000.