📚 A system that allows efficient, cost-effective management of our library.

Kindly ensure you install the following softwares

1. Git
2. Node.js
3. Node Package Manager (npm), this comes pre-installed with Node.js

In order to get a copy of the project up and running on your local computer for development and testing purposes. Do the following

1. Clone the repo.
2. Switch to project directory
3. Create a local .env file using the .env.sample file on the root folder
4. Type npm install to install dependencies
5. Type npm run dev to start development server or npm start to run in production

In other to run migrations, run npx knex migrate:latest OR npm run migrate

To create a new migration, run npx knex migrate:make <tablename> OR npm run make:migration <tablename>

To rollback a migration, run npx knex migrate:rollback <tablename> OR npm run migrate:rollback <tablename>

To certify that the server is operational navigate to http://localhost:5000 on your browser and you should see the message.

{ message: 'Hello Books Deferral' }

To send email within the application using SMTP (mailtrap.io)

1. Update your local .env file with the following MAIL_USERNAME=YOUR_MAILTRAP_USERNAME MAIL_PASSWORD=YOUR_MAILTRAP_PASSWORD
2. Import Mail class from friendly-mail
3. Create an instance of new Mail('Example')

Note: Mail is a chainable class

example: 

   const sampleMail = new Mail('Email Verification');
   sampleMail.to('[email protected]')
             .subject('some message')
             .send()  // returns a promise