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Install dependencies

• install node and mongo

  $ brew install node mongo
  

• install packages

  $ npm install
  

• install sass

  $ sudo gem install sass
  

Config

You only have to do this once.

• ask in the slack channel for the secrets.js file
• add the secrets.js file to the conf/ directory
• ask in the slack channel for the .env file
• add the .env file to the project root directory
• generate assets with webpack

  $ npm run build
  

Provision MongoDB

• Install Docker
• docker-compose up -d mongo
• Command starts a mongodb container running in the background, available at localhost
• Run docker-compose stop to stop mongo container (will continue if not explicitly stopped)

Start app

• start the database service

  $ docker-compose up -d mongo
  

• start the application

  $ npm run start-dev
  

Populate the seed data

$ npm run seed

After running the seed task you should be able to log in to the app with username admin and password password.

View app

• localhost:8080/login

Running the mongo shell

• run docker ps and copy the CONTAINER ID associated with the docker container running mongo
• run the shell in the docker container

  docker exec -it CONTAINER mongo