Circles

Developing a Social Groups web-app using typescript and graphQL

Technology Used

Frontend

Backend

Apollo-Express as a Server
Postgres as a Database
TypeGraphQL for setting GraphQL-API
TypeORM as an ORM
Redis for storing user session
Firebase Storage for storing and serving images

Setup

Database

Make sure you have Redis installed in your computer
Make sure you have Postgres installed in your computer if not install it from here
Open the Postgres shell(psql) and create a database
```
    create database circle;
```
Replace your database url in .env (check .env.example file for reference)

Firebase Storage

Create a firebase project
Go to project settings -> service accounts -> generate new key (it will download a json file which has project keys)
save the json file as src/firebase-admin-credentials.json

Frontend

cd into the client and install all dependencies
```
   cd client
   yarn
```
start dev server
```
    yarn dev
```

Backend

cd into the server and install all dependencies
```
   cd server
   npm install
```
open two terminals and run each of the below commands in seperate terminal

```
     npm run watch
```
```
     npm run dev
```