README.md

Next.js + MySQL rewrite of www.toastboy.co.uk

This project is based on Azure + MySQL example code from Prisma using Tailwind CSS for styling.

Prerequisites

• Node.js

Set up the Next.js app

Execute create-next-app with npm to bootstrap:

npx create-next-app next-www-toastboy

MySQL connection string

The environment variable DATABASE_URL needs to be set to the correct connection string in .env, which includes the URL and the credentials. For now I'm using the debug localhost database:

DATABASE_URL=mysql://root:{mysqlpassword}@127.0.0.1/footy

Naturally, since it's sensitive it's marked as ignored in .gitignore.

Push the schema into the database

The original example has seed data which can be written into the database using a seed script. I'll revisit that approach for testing, but for now I have used [[Prisma]] introspection to generate a schema directly from what's already in the database (see Obsidian for notes on the data tidying that was needed)

Run the App

Run the app with following command:

npm run dev

Open your browser at localhost:3000 to see the running application.