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Back-End Development Environment Setup

1. Download Vagrant: https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html
2. Download VirtualBox: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
3. Run vagrant up within the project's root directory
4. Run vagrant provision to run the provision script again ONLY if you have modified it
5. Follow the commands printed out by the provision script
6. Install argon2 using the following steps found here: https://www.npmjs.com/package/argon2#before-installing
7. Create a secret.json file to use in signing session cookies.
8. Run npm start to get the Node server running whilst connected to the PostgreSQL database
9. Hack the planet

Recommended Development Tools

If you don't have nvm (Node Version Manager) yet, it is highly advised that you install it. Simply use one of the two following install scripts:

• For cURL: curl -o- https://github.com/raw/creationix/nvm/v0.32.0/install.sh | bash
• For Wget: wget -qO- https://github.com/raw/creationix/nvm/v0.32.0/install.sh | bash

Git Conventions We Use

Make sure to never push into the development branch without having merged it to your branch first to resolve any potential merge conflicts that may arise. The development branch is to stay merge conflict-free.

For this project, we use the following format to name branches:

• Release branch: release-1.0
• Feature branch: f-branch-name
• Bug fix branch: b-branch-name
• Hot fix branch: h-branch-name
• Refactor branch: r-branch-name

Hot fixes are only meant to be quick critical fixes that get immediately pushed into production. Merge this directly into the development branch, followed by the release & master branch.

Copyright Notice

Copyright (c) 2017, https://github.com/RecursiveLogic

Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is NOT granted, unless written consent from the publisher is granted.