This is a boilerplate project used for starting new projects! Created with guidance from Bloc/Thinkful curriculum. This project creates an Express server equipped with appropriate middleware & testing libraries, which is built to interface with PostgreSQL database including SQL query building and database migrations.

Complete the following steps to start a new project (NEW-PROJECT-NAME):

1. Clone this repository to your local machine git clone BOILERPLATE-URL NEW-PROJECTS-NAME
2. cd into the cloned repository
3. Make a fresh start of the git history for this project with rm -rf .git && git init
4. Install the node dependencies npm install
5. Edit the contents of the package.json to use NEW-PROJECT-NAME instead of "name": "express-boilerplate",
6. Move the example Environment file to .env that will be ignored by git and read by the express server mv example.env .env
7. Edit .env file with true environment variables. Edit config.js DB_NAME to your database name and username.
8. Create migrations folder for postgrator mkdir migrations

• Start the application: npm start
• Start nodemon for the application: npm run dev
• Run tests: npm test or npm t
• Run tests in watch mode: npm run test:watch
• Migrate local database: npm run migrate

When your new project is ready for deployment, add a new Heroku application with heroku create. This will make a new git remote called "heroku".

Check postgrator-production-config.js file to update production database variables.

Run npm run deploy which will do an NPM audit, migrate the production database, and push to this remote's master branch.