Backend of Movie Afterthoughts

Continuing from Frontend setup

Clone this repository. You will need node and npm installed globally on your machine.

Installation:

npm install

• Download MySQL from MySQL

• Set up MySQL on local machine and retrieve your MySQL host, user, password.

• Create a new database on MySQL and retrieve the database name.

• Sign up for an api key on The Movie Database.

• Create a .env file in the root directory.

• Input all information retrieved along with a jwt secret (can be any string) in .env.

• Your .env should look something like the image below, with all the values inputted according. Make sure the variable names match.

To Start Backend:

npm run dev

License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.