Clarify development setup

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@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ An API + webapp to manage PSForever accounts, characters, and servers.
* WorldServer mangement
## Developing
This requires a relatively modern version of Node that supports async/await and ES6 (v13.x+). Tested using v13.3.0. You may still get `(node:61412) ExperimentalWarning: The ESM module loader is experimental.`. Ignore this as ESM is essentially stable in recent versions.
**This requires a [relatively modern version](https://nodejs.org/en/download/current/) of Node that supports async/await and ES6 (v13.x+). Tested using v13.3.0. Do not use LTS builds.** You may still get `(node:61412) ExperimentalWarning: The ESM module loader is experimental.`. Ignore this as ESM is essentially stable in recent versions.
First download and install the Node dependencies:
```
@ -28,26 +28,98 @@ Load the DB schema into a fresh database (in this case named psforever):
psql psforever < db/schema.sql
```
Before running, you will need to create a `.env` file like this:
Before running, you will need to create a `.env` file in the root of the project like this:
```
PGUSER=...
PGHOST=...
PGPASSWORD=...
PGDATABASE=...
PGPORT=...
COOKIE_SECRET=<make this very long and random>
PGUSER=your_database_user
PGHOST=localhost
PGPASSWORD=your_database_user_password
PGDATABASE=psforever
PGPORT=5432
COOKIE_SECRET=make_this_very_long_and_random
```
Never share/release/commit your `.env` file.
**Never** share/release/commit your `.env` file.
### Running
Run the following commands:
Finally, run the following commands:
```
# Will start the frontend Webpack builder with hot reload
npm run dev
# And in another terminal, will start the backend server
# Will start the backend server (:8080)
npm run dev-server
```
You should see similar output:
```
> psfportal@1.0.0 dev-server
> nodemon -w api/ -w index.js
[nodemon] 2.0.2
[nodemon] to restart at any time, enter `rs`
[nodemon] watching dir(s): api/**/* index.js
[nodemon] watching extensions: js,mjs,json
[nodemon] starting `node index.js`
(node:25327) ExperimentalWarning: The ESM module loader is experimental.
WARNING: development server simulated delay active
Connected to the psql database at localhost
[MODE development] PSFWeb now accepting requests at http://localhost:8080/
```
Finally run in another terminal:
```
# Will start the frontend Webpack builder with hot reload (:8081)
npm run dev
```
You should see similar output:
```
> psfportal@1.0.0 dev /home/username/PSFPortal
> webpack-dev-server --history-api-fallback --config webpack.config.cjs --content-base public
「wds」: Project is running at http://localhost:8081/
「wds」: webpack output is served from /
「wds」: Content not from webpack is served from /home/username/PSFPortal/public
「wds」: 404s will fallback to /index.html
「wdm」: Hash: 7936960d2ecba7f25c89
Version: webpack 4.41.5
Time: 4075ms
Built at: 01/07/2020 6:47:43 PM
Asset Size Chunks Chunk Names
bundle.js 2.09 MiB bundle [emitted] bundle
bundle.js.map 2.22 MiB bundle [emitted] [dev] bundle
Entrypoint bundle = bundle.js bundle.js.map
[1] multi (webpack)-dev-server/client?http://localhost:8081 ./app/main.js 40 bytes {bundle} [built]
[./app/App.svelte] 14.5 KiB {bundle} [built]
<snip>
+ 218 hidden modules
「wdm」: Compiled successfully.
```
Please note that Webpack (dev) will proxy all API requests (/api) to the host `http://localhost:8080` (see the `devServer` key in [webpack.config.cjs](webpack.config.cjs)). This MUST match your backend server's (dev-server) listening port, which is by default 8080.
**Finally, connect to http://localhost:8081** (webpack, not the raw express server)
### Troubleshooting
1. Database SELECT/INSERTs are failing, but I can connect to the DB
Make sure you have granted the right permissions to your DB user.
```
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE user TO dbname;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA public TO user;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON ALL SEQUENCES IN SCHEMA public TO user;
```
2. `[HPM] Error occurred while trying to proxy request /api/stats from localhost:8080 to http://localhost:8080`
Your Webpack instance is listening on 8080, when it should be listening on 8081 and proxying to the express server at 8080. Make sure to run `npm run dev-server` first and make sure it ran properly.
3. `Error: Cannot find package 'bcrypt'`
The `bcrypt` package has native dependencies that must match your Node version. If you upgrade Node, they will be outdated. To fix this, you need to remove your `node_modules/` directory and run `npm install` again to kick off another native build of this dependency.
## Production Running/Building
Follow the same steps as above, but instead run `npm run production` at the very end.