README.md

🍑 Express.js with MongoDB backend

• Express.js - framework
• MongoDB - database
• Mongoose - object modeling
• Axios - http client
• cors for Express.js - middleware
• nodemon - development dependency

Development

Environment variables

Make a copy of .env.example and name it .env
When using docker you don't need to do any modifications for developing locally.

Start the backend and a database

(Requires docker installed and the environment variables from the step above)

Start the backend and a local database:
make start

Start the backend and a local database with clean dummy data:
make fresh

Stop and remove backend and local database:
make clean

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Commands if not using makefile:

Install and run the backend using docker compose up --build
If you want to populate your local database with dummy data from the fixtures use docker compose --profile fresh up --build instead.