MERN-app-setup.md

Set up backend and frontend apps

Local Setup

1. create a project 3 directory

GitHub

1. create org
2. create backend repo with Readme then clone it inside of your project 3 directory.
   1. name the repo something like app-name-backend or app-name-api

Backend

1. Clone the backend app repo
2. create package.json npm init -y
3. create .gitignore and add node_modules , .gitignore, and .env
4. install core dependencies

• apollo-server-express
• express
• mongoose
• dotenv

5. install core dev dependencies

• nodemon

6. create Models
7. create seeds (only a few of basic seeds)

Frontend

1. inside the project 3 directory, create react app npx create-react-app app-name
2. On GitHub, create a repo in your org. You only have to set the remote connection to your repo and push it

MERN deployment: https://gist.github.com/loriculberson/ab4ce617ff26eba0226fda48cc664c03