README.md

Backend Setup

This part can be a little tricky! If you run into some confusing errors along the way, don't be afraid to reach out if have any trouble!

You'll need to download:

1. PostgreSQL
2. PgAdmin 4 (if PostgreSQL didn't come with it)

Then, set up a database called securing-safe-food. If you're not familiar with how to do so, it's easy to do through PgAdmin

1. Open PgAdmin and configure your credentials (if necessary). Then, right click on the Databases dropdown (under Servers > PostgreSQL [version])

2. Enter "securing-safe-food" as the database name

Next, create a file called .env in the root directory (under ssf/) and copy over the contents from .env.example. Replace DATABASE_PASSWORD with the password you entered for the postgres user (NOT necessarily your PgAdmin master password!)

You can check that your database connection details are correct by running nx serve backend - if you can see the following line in the terminal, then you've got it right!

"LOG 🚀 Application is running on: http://localhost:3000/api"

Finally, run yarn run typeorm:migrate to load all the tables into your database. If everything is set up correctly, you should see "Migration ... has been executed successfully." in the terminal.