This is a product listing front-end. It is made up of two parts: a client package and a server package. The client package is a React app and is served from /. The server package acts as an API gateway and forwards api requests from the client on the /api endpoint to the base url specified by the PRODUCT_BE_SERVER_URL environment variable.

This package is intended to be used with the product-be package.

The app accepts database configuration via these enviornmental variables:

You can run the product-fe package in development mode with the following 2 commands in differnet terminals:

# Start the server
$ cd server
$ PRODUCT_BE_SERVER_URL="http://localhost:8080" PORT=3001 node bin/www

# Start the React dev server
$ cd client
$ npm start

This assumes the product-be is running on localhost on port 8080. The product-fe server will be running on port 3001 and the React dev server will be running on port 3000.