the master branch contains only the skeleton. refer to the branch 'round2' for the solution.
once it's forked/cloned:
npm install
then run
createdb <your_db_name_here>
psql -d <your_db_name_here> -f ./lib/schema.sql
psql -d <your_db_name_here> -f ./lib/seeds.sql
create a .env that matches the pgConfig object in lib/db.js for example, mine looks like this
PG_HOST=localhost
PG_PORT=5432
PG_DATABASE=dan
PG_USER=daniel_pease
PG_PASSWORD=
SECRET=<put your secret here>
get into psql and query the database to make sure everything is k