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A boilerplate that I made to reference in future personal projects

Goodies

• Create React App
• Express server
• Mongoose
• MongoDB + Atlas
• Prettier
• Eslint
• Pre-commit hooks
• Jest
• Heroku

Getting Started

# Install dependencies
yarn install

# Start servers
yarn dev

Heroku

• Set MONGODB_URL environment variable

MongoDB with Atlas

• Register for an account here https://www.mongodb.com/cloud/atlas
• Create a project + cluster
  • Cloud Provider & Region: AWS
  • Region: N. Virginia
• Wait for cluster to finish being created
• Press "Connect" from the main dashboard
• Press "Add a Different Address" button to whitelist your connection for Heroku
• Set IP Address to 0.0.0.0/0
• Create a database user (username + password)
• Set the connection string as MONGODB_URL in Heroku