Setting up local development for Volcash for MacOS

Install NodeJS

Install NodeJS by entering below commands to terminal

brew update && brew install node

Check if NodeJS and NPM are installed

node -v 
npm -v

Setting code base and required data

• Clone Volcash github repo

  git clone [email protected]:dbenet-ntu/Volcash-Project.git

• Download images.zip file, upzip it and put the folder inside back-end.

• Create Constants.js file inside front-end/src to set PROXY variable. This PROXY variable is the address of the back-end of the site. Inside this file, put

  export const PROXY = "http://localhost:5001"

  Notes: On production server, this variable is set differently.

Install required dependencies

• Install required dependencies for back-end

  cd back-end
  npm install

• Install required dependies for front-end

  cd front-end
  npm install

Start development server

• Start back-end service

  cd back-end 
  npm start

• Opening a different terminal, start front-end developement enviroment

  cd front-end
  npm start