Instructions for use (with Heroku)

Getting started

1. Fork repo and push to a remote of your choice.
2. npm install in both top-level directory and client directory. From top-level directory, npm run start. Open browser to 127.0.0.1:3000 and there should be a welcome page. If there isn't, open an issue cuz I haven't seen that before. :P
3. (Optional) Update your two package.json files (top-level and client/) with the name of your app and GitHub repo.

Database stuff (ugh worst part I promise)

1. If you don't have it, install PostgreSQL. If you choose another database, you're on your own here!
2. Set up Homebrew to manage your background PostgreSQL processes: brew tap homebrew/services then brew services start postgresql.
3. Run createuser --superuser --password [username]. Remember both these credentials.
4. Run createdb [db_name] --username=[username] --password. Then enter a password for your new DB. Keep these credentials on hand as we're going to use them in a second.
5. Run psql [db_name] < node_modules/connect-pg-simple/table.sql. One of our dependencies requires a custom table and this is a short SQL script to create it.
6. Update db/config/config.json with the credentials you just created (i.e. key [username] to "username", [password_you_entered] to "password" and [db_name] to "database") in the "development" key.
7. Repeat steps 4 - 6 with the same username but instead of [db_name] use [db_name]_test or something similar and update the "test" key instead of the "development" key.
8. Restart the development server and make sure you can create a user and log in/out with them (this is making sure your DB is set up correctly). Again, open an issue if you have problems here.
9. Finally, npm run test to make sure your test database is also working.

Initial deploy (to Heroku)

1. Set up Heroku if you haven't already.
2. Create your Heroku app: heroku create [app_name].

Database reprise

1. heroku addons:create heroku-postgresql:hobby-dev to provision a free, basic database from Heroku.
2. heroku pg:psql --app [heroku_app_name] < node_modules/connect-pg-simple/table.sql.

Deploy finale

1. cd client && npm run build to build your client for production. Then add and commit the newly built files (I believe create-react-app adds build/ to its .gitignore, so make sure to comment that out until you have a better build and deploy system) and git push heroku master.