Tenant Power

Set up for development

• After cloning this repo to your computer, run npm install.
• Install PostGIS if you don't have it already. You can find installation instructions for most platforms at the PostGIS website under the "binary installers" heading.
• Ensure you have a Postgres server running.
• Create the development database with createdb landlords
• Create a database.json file with the connection details for your local database. Mine, for example, looks like this:

{
  "dev": {
    "driver": "pg",
    "user": "postgres",
    "password": "postgres",
    "host": "localhost",
    "database": "landlords",
    "port": "5432",
    "ssl": false,
    "schema": "public"
  }
}

• Run npm run migrate-dev to migrate the database.
• There is a coresponding command for migrating the production database, npm run migrate-prod. This requires that the database.json file be expanded to include a 'prod' object, like so:

{
  "dev": {
    ...
  },
  "prod": {
    "driver": "pg",
    "user": "postgres",
    "password": "postgres",
    "host": "localhost",
    "database": "landlords",
    "port": "5432",
    "ssl": false,
    "schema": "public"
  }
}

• Grab the sample data and dump it into your development database with psql -h localhost -d landlords -f props.sql. This sample data covers only the City of Somerville. If you're using your own Postgres installation you may need to change the arguments to connect to the right database.
• Start the server: node landlords.js
• Start a server for the frontend with npm run start