Setting Up

This section will discuss the steps to set up the MERN application, Lost It.

Prerequisites

Node.js (npm) git Visual Studio Code

Setting up the project on your computer

• Fork the repo and clone it to your computer.
• Open the terminal and navigate to the project directory and run the following commands.
• npm install to install the necessary packages. This command must be run two times, one for installing the packages required for frontend and once for the backend.
• The above command is run in the root directory of the repository ie inside of ~/../Lost-It/ >> npm install and in the client directory ie ~/Lost-It/client >> npm install
• Once this is done, you have to navigate to the root directory and run npm run dev . This will start the backend server.
• Open a new terminal window and navigate to the client sub-directory of the repository. Run the command npm start to start the deployement of frontend part of the application.
• An example of what you might expect is shown below.

• Open http://localhost:3000/ in the browser and you should see the page below.

• The page will reload if you make any changes to the files in the src directory and save those changes.

Configurations to do before writing any code