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A demo of the site is available here.

This is the development repository for Tinyhouse, a rental marketplace built with React, TypeScript, Node, GraphQL, and MongoDB, and deployed on Heroku. The deployment repository for this project is available here.

The documentation for this repository is still being written.

This application relies on a number of environment variables to set up.

In the server directory, we will need to create a .env file at server/.env with the following shape:

# server/.env

PORT=9000
DB_USER=<your_db_username>
DB_USER_PASSWORD=<your_db_password>
DB_CLUSTER=<your_db_cluster_name>
PUBLIC_URL=http://localhost:3000
G_CLIENT_ID=<your_oauth_clientid>
G_CLIENT_SECRET=<your_oauth_client_secret>
G_GEOCODE_KEY=<your_google_geocode_id>
SECRET=<some_secret>
NODE_ENV=development
S_SECRET_KEY=<your_stripe_secret>
CLOUDINARY_NAME=<your_cloudinary_bucket_name>
CLOUDINARY_KEY=<your_cloudinary_key>
CLOUDINARY_SECRET=<your_cloudinary_secret>

Additionally, we will need to create a .env file in the client directory at client/.env with the following shape:

# client/.env
REACT_APP_S_PUBLISHABLE_KEY=<your_stripe_publishable_key>
REACT_APP_S_CLIENT_ID=<your_stripe_client_id>

Note: When we build our React app, the Create React App scripts simply inline the values of our environment variables in our code at build time. For this reason, the environment variables in our React app should never be secret.

While developing, you will likely want to seed your app with mock data. To seed your database, in the server folder, run:

npm run seed

When you get the success messages, press ^C to exit.

It may be useful at times to clear the database. To do so, in the server folder, run:

npm run clear

When you get the success messages, press ^C to exit.