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 I run this process in the background of my EC2 server using
 `sudo pm2 start server.js`
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+# Local dev
+1. Get an API key for the Google Books API [here](https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/library/books.googleapis.com?project=booksearch-281216)
+2. Set it in .env export API_KEY=
+3. npm install
+4. NODE_ENV=development npm start
+5. Now this server is running on port 3001 http://localhost:3001
+6. Set up local dev for the bookapp here