chat is a simple messaging web app made for school

first you have to download the node modules specified in the backend and frontend directories. to do that you cd to them and run the index.ts file using deno (deno run --allow-all index.ts). use the --watch flag to automatically restart the program on code changes (deno run --allow-all --watch index.ts). in the other command line you cd to the frontend and run npm run build to build the css from the tailwind sources or npm run watch to build the css on file changes.

all the database setup scripts are in the database/scripts directory. you then need to run the db_setup.bat script. just remember when you add an sql file to the tables folder, you also need to add it to the db_setup script.