Setting up the project, Locally

Using Docker

1. Use the Docker file attached to the project directory.
2. Open a terminal and navigate to the directory containing the Dockerfile. Run the following command to build the Docker image: docker build -t docker-image .
3. Once the image is build run the docker container. docker run -p 3000:3000 docker-image The -p flag maps port 3000 from the container to port 3000 on your localhost. Adjust the port mappings if your application uses a different port.
4. You should pass the environment variables to your Docker container using the -e flag with the docker run command.

Without using Docker

1. Run npm install inside backend and client directory, respectively.
2. Update the .env file of backend directory with MONGO_URL and PORT respectively.
3. Start the backend server using npm start or npx nodemon index.js command.
4. Update API_URL inside config.json in the client/src directory to point to the local development server where your backend is running.
5. Run npm start to start the react development server.