Full Stack React/Express Todo List Boilerplate

Technologies Used

React + 
Redux + 
React-router 4 + 
Redux-Form 6 + 
SCSS + 
Webpack 2 +
NodeJS +
ExpressJS +
KnexJS + 
PostgreSQL

FYI

• The use of the $ character symbolizes that the following text needs to be entered in the terminal/powershell

Setup Notes

• Install PostgreSQL on your machine if you don't already have it

• Attempt running the command $ psql in your terminal/powershell

If you try to access psql locally and get an error like this:

psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory
	Is the server running locally and accepting
	connections on Unix domain socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"?

Run this command to start your postgres server:   
$ pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres -l /usr/local/var/postgres/server.log start

• Then to make sure you have a database for yourself run this command:

$ createdb

• Then attempt to run this command:

$ psql

• If you see something like this you're good:

psql (9.6.3)
Type "help" for help.

akyunaakish=#

• Exit from the psql repl with this command:

$ \q

• Then create a database locally by running this command:

$ createdb todos

• Now you should be able to re-enter into psql directly to your new databse:

$ psql todos

• If you see something like this you're good:

psql (9.6.3)
Type "help" for help.

todos=#

• Then make sure to create a .env file at the root of your application and update it with your DATABASE_URL containing the name of your database:

DATABASE_URL=postgres://localhost/todos

• Now as long as you have a version of node at least 6.9.5 and npm version at least 5.0.0 you can install the project dependencies in the root directory of this project:

$ npm install

• You'll also have to install the knex module globally on your machine:

$ npm install -g knex

• Now you can update the schema of your local database to be compliant with this project:

$ knex migrate:latest

• You should now be able to run the app. In one terminal/powershell tab or window run this command:

$ npm run client

• In another terminal/powershell tab or window run this command:

$ npm run server

• The client side of the application should now be available in the browser at:

localhost:8080

Building dist folder for production

• Set your .env file's NODE_ENV variable equal to production

NODE_ENV=production

• Run the build script

$ npm run build