Source • New features • Installing

Extended from Ben Awad's Fullstack Tutorial.

These are features implemented beyond the tutorial.

• Subreddits
• Comments
• Sorting on top or new
• User image upload

This project is hosted as a monorepo, storing both the frontend and the backend in one repository. Some setup is needed for both parts of the project.

To install packages:

yarn

Install PostgreSQL

Create a database

createdb lireddit_cees

Install Redis

Copy and paste .env.example to .env and insert the following values:

DATABASE_URL=postgresql://postgres:postgres@localhost:5432/lireddit_cees
REDIS_URL=127.0.0.1:6379
PORT=4000
SESSION_SECRET=[insert a long random string here]
CORS_ORIGIN=http://localhost:3000

Run tsc

yarn watch

In another window, run the server (view on localhost:4000/graphql)

yarn dev

1. A simple but effective trick is: stop yarn watch, remove the dist folder, then run yarn watch again.
2. Check if the migrations ran properly.
3. After running migrations, you may need to remove the migration files in server/migrations.

To install packages:

yarn

Copy and paste .env.local.example to .env.local and insert the following values:

NEXT_PUBLIC_API_URL=http://localhost:4000/graphql

To run the server (view on localhost:3000)

yarn dev