Hello and Welcome to the back-end part of my first and ongoing Node/Angular chat !

• To install the following project, start by cloning or downloading it

• Once you are in the project folder in your computer :

$ npm install

It will install all the dependencies needed to run this NodeJs API and the socket server Do take note that in this project, i am using MySql as my chosen database, and Sequelize for the ORM If you wish to use MariaDB or PostGreSql, a few tweaks might be needed, such as

$ npm install pg 

for PostgreSql e.g

• You will also want to change your DB config in the config.json, for instance :

{
    "development": {
    "username": "Your_User_Name_Here",
    "password": "Your_Password_Here",
    "database": "Your_DB_Name_Here",
    "host": "127.0.0.1",
    "port": "3306",
    "dialect": "mysql",
    "operatorsAliases": false
    },
    ...
}

Now that you have everything ready (I hope), you will have to run some migrations to get your DB in order. I personnaly had some issues with Sequelize automatic model synchronisation, so while I work on that, the best way to get started is :

$ sequelize db:create

( Or $ node_modules/.bin/sequelize db:create if you don't have it installed globally).It Will create you DB. Check on phpMyAdmin or directly in your terminal via

$ mysql -u Your_user_name -p

Then to migrate :

$ sequelize db:migrate

(Or $ node_modules/.bin/sequelize db:migrate)

At the root of your directory :

$ sudo vim .env

Add JWT_KEY=your_very_complex_key to it

Now you can start your server !

$ npm start

You can just do that here