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If you don’t want to install local dependencies on your machine, please navigate to the Start with Docker to get started.

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Setup your development

Prerequisite You should have installed the following dependencies:

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Step 1. Clone Igbo API repo

git clone https://github.com/nkowaokwu/igbo_api.git

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Step 2. Install dev dependencies

cd igbo_api/
npm install

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Step 3: Build the project

npm run build

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Step 4: Run the project

npm run dev
The Igbo API will be running at http://localhost:8080
The Igbo API website will be running at http://localhost:3000

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Enable Firebase Authentication

This project uses Firebase and requires you to create your own free Firebase project. Please follow the Firebase Configuration Guide here

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Optional: Development with Replica Sets and Redis

Running replica sets locally is machine-intensive and should only be ran for testing or specific-feature development purposes.
To start the dev API server while running MongoDB Replica sets and the Redis cache, run: 
npm run dev:full:database
To start a Redis server, run: 
redis-server
You must have Redis installed on your machine in order to run the server.