Setting up Development Environment - acm-mu/abacus GitHub Wiki

Prerequsites

• IDE (Recommend Visual Studio Code)
• Git
• Node
• Yarn
• nodemon

Instructions

• Clone the abacus repo to your local machine.
• With your terminal of choice, navigate into the cloned directory.
• From the backend directory, run the yarn command to install backend dependencies.
• From the frontend directory, run the yarn command to install frontend dependencies.
• From the root repo directory ./abacus, run yarn dev to start up frontend & backend together.
  • Can also run yarn dev from backend directory, and yarn start from frontend directory in seperate terminal windows.

Note No need to restart frontend or backend when making code changes, both the frontend and backend hot reload.