Build and run the Docker Compose file docker-compose.yml in this project's root directory:

docker-compose up

From this project's root directory install the required node packages:

npm install

Run the node.js server:

node .

Note that a PostgreSQL database service needs to run on the system.

Install PostgreSQL 14:

sudo apt install postgresql-14 postgresql-contrib

There are three main commands to use the PostgreSQL service:

sudo service postgresql status
sudo service postgresql start
sudo service postgresql stop

Switch to the postgres user:

su postgres

Create a database with the name postgres:

createdb postgres

To drop (delete) the database postgres:

dropdb postgres

Log in without a password:

sudo -u postgres psql postgres

Change the password:

ALTER USER postgres WITH PASSWORD 'password';

When running inside a Windows Subsystem for Linux it is recommended to set up a port proxy to map internal ports to external ones. To do this the PowerShell script wsl2-portproxy.ps1 is included in this project's root directory. First, set execution policy on Windows:

Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned

Then, run the script on Windows:

PowerShell wsl2-network.ps1