Setup

Environment Files

• Create an .env file on the server directory
• Follows the .env-example structure

  DB_URI=
  SESSION_SECRET=
  NODE_ENV=development
  DOMAIN=http://localhost:3000

• set DB_URI to your local datbase
  • i.e mongodb://localhost:27017/<name-of-db>
  • or a cloud connection string, i.e mongodb atlas
• set SESSION_SECRET to a random string of your choice

Install dependencies

• I am using yarn but can also use npm
• in a terminal window in the root directory then run cd server
• then run yarn or npm i
• then open another terminal window in the root directory then run cd client
• then run yarn or npm i

Populate Database

• To populate your Database with example data
• Open a terminal in the root directory and navigate to the server folder cd server
• Then run the command yarn populateDb or npm run populateDb
• This will populate all the relevant collections with data

Running the server

• To run the server, open a terminal in the root directory and navigate to the server folder cd server
• Then run yarn dev or npm run dev
• In the terminal you should see

🚀 Server is running on port 8000
Connected to DB

• The graphQL playground should be available on http://localhost:8000/graphql
• A quick query to ensure that is working is to run

query GetAllPortfolios {
  portfolios {
    title
  }
}

Running the client

• To run the client, open a terminal in the root directory and naviagte to the client folder cd client
• Then run yarn dev or npm run dev
• In the terminal you should see

ready - started server on http://localhost:3000
event - compiled successfully

• In your browser of choice, navigate to http://localhost:3000/

Logging in as admin

• To login as an admin user
• navigate to http://localhost:3000/login
• Fill in the login inputs as follows;
  • Email
    • admin@admin.com
  • Password
    • 123456

Current Issue

• Login as an admin user
• Once logged in, click on the Manage dropdown in the Navigation and select Dashboard
• Now reload the page
• You get redirected to http://localhost:3000/login?message=NOT_AUTHENTICATED
• This seems to occur because in the withAuth file user is not returned in the req object