This app is meant to serve as a quick-start for fellows to clone into and build on top of. If you will be pushing it to Heroku you will need to set your node engine version in package.json. To set your node engine version:

1. Go to the terminal, iTerm, or VSCode terminal and run node -v
2. Copy the output from the last command and paste it into your package.json, in "engines.node"

1. Navigate to the directory where you want this app to live
2. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/joinpursuit/basic-express-app.git
3. Create your own repo on Github
4. Navigate to the cloned repo from step 2 (should be cd ./basic-express-app)
5. Reset the origin remote to now reference your newly created repo from step 3 (git remote set-url origin git://your.new.url.here)
6. Confirm this worked by running git remote -v. The output should match your new repo
7. Further confirm by pushing to your new remote and seeing the changes in the repo on Github

1. You can now delete the README.md in your repo, or make it your own by overwriting its content :)
2. You can rename the directory from basic-express-app to whatever you like by using the mv command like so: mv ./basic-express-app ./my-own-directory-name. This command is expecting you to be at the same level as the parent of basic-express-app. So if you run ls and don't see basic-express-app you'll need to tweak the command.

1. Add a .env file, and write the following in it: PORT=3001 (you can change the port number)
2. Run npm i (or npm install, same thing) to create your node_modules
3. Run npm start - this runs nodemon server.js
4. Navigate to http://localhost:3001, you should be seeing "Basic Express App - ROOT" in your browser