Express Loans Backend Main Server

Installation and Setup Instructions

Clone the latest version of this repository.

git clone https://github.com/Express-Loan-for-Students-E-L-S/ELS-Backend-MainServer.git

Installation

This module is distributed via [npm][npm] which is bundled with [node][node] and should be installed as one of your project's dependencies:

npm install

Setup Enviornment Variables:

The project is using AWS-S3 and MongoDB so in order to set them up you need to add the AWS API Keys and Mongo URL to your enviornment variables

Create a .env file in root of this directory and add following to the file

MONGOURL={Your MongoDB url}
AWS_ID={Your aws ID}
AWS_SECRET={Your AWS secret key}
AWS_BUCKET_NAME={Your AWS bucket name}

To Start Server:

node index.js

The server will run on default port 8080, to specify a different port add 'PORT' to the enviornment variables