BigChess

This project is a monorepo containing both the backend and frontend.

Setup

to perform the project setup please execute this command in your terminal

yarn

Backend Setup

Requirements

• make sure you have docker installed.

Steps

Step 1

Make sure you have docker running. Execute this command in the backend folder to setup mongodb in docker

yarn db:start

verify that your docker container for mongodb is running correctly.

Step 2

Next, make sure you add the following config to your hosts file

127.0.0.1  mongo0
127.0.0.1  mongo1
127.0.0.1  mongo2

this is to make sure you have access to mongodb locally.

if everything is good, you should be able to access your database using MongoDB compass.

Step 3

generate certificates using the script cert.generate.sh in scripts folder.

Step 4

verify that you can run the backend using the command

yarn dev

if all went well, you should have your backend server running correctly