BoWowMeow Backend with Node.js, Express, Sequelize, Heroku

The backend is live on https://bowwowmeow-api.herokuapp.com.

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Setup

Run the yarn add sequelize script first, and run sequelize init to initialize sequelize.

$ yarn add sequelize
$ sequelize init

Then install the packages.
These are our package

$ yarn add bcrypt body-parser cors dotenv express fs handlebars jsonwebtoken mysql2 nodemailer sequelize-cli nodemon

After installation complete, you can insert new file .env then fill the env variables.

# change these
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_NAME=bowwowmeow
SECRET=secret

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Development

yarn start

Then open http://localhost:3000.

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Deploying

You can use Heroku or Google Cloud Platform to deploy. Remember to change the environment variables as well.

DB_HOST=
DB_NAME=
SECRET=

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Project Development Steps

mkdir projectname-backend
cd projectname-backend

yarn init -y

sequelize init

First we need to create database using this script

$ sequelize db:create

sequelize will automatically create database name use DB_NAME.
after database created, we need to make tables or models .

$ sequelize model:generate --name create-user --attributes fullName:string,email:string,password:string,phoneNumber:string,street:string,city:string,zipcode:integer

after adding new migration for adding user table. use this code for migrating user table to database

$ sequelize db:migrate

use same code to create products with a different attributes and carts table.
then use db:migrate to migrate new table to database.

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License

MIT License