README.md

BWL backend starter

Big Whale Labs backend starter

Installation and local launch

1. Clone this repo: git clone https://github.com/BigWhaleLabs/backend-starter
2. Launch the mongo database locally
3. Create .env with the environment variables listed below
4. Run yarn in the root folder
5. Run yarn start

And you should be good to go! Feel free to fork and submit pull requests.

Environment variables

Name	Description
MONGO	URL of the mongo database
PORT	Port to run server on (defaults to 1337)

Also, please, consider looking at .env.sample