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, LOCAL_DATABASE_URL and PORT to your liking.

e.g.

DATABASE_URL=postgres://someuser:somebigsecretpassword@somedbhost/pastebin
LOCAL_DATABASE_URL=postgres://neill@localhost/pastebin
PORT=4000

You will need to create your own databases for this project - certainly one remotely and ideally one locally, too, for development and testing.

Hosts for postgres with a free offering include:

• https://render.com
• https://www.elephantsql.com/
• https://supabase.com/

yarn start:dev

The env var LOCAL_DATABASE_URL will be consulted.

yarn start:dev-with-remote-db

The env var DATABASE_URL will be consulted.

To deploy to render.com:

• build command should be yarn && yarn build

After deployment, render.com should be set up to run either yarn start or node dist/server.js

The env var DATABASE_URL will be consulted and so must be set on render.com prior to application start.