== Getting started with Flit

This is a quick-and-dirty monorepo for development purposes, containing two separate repos.

• flit-client contains the frontend client.
• flit-server contains the backend service.

== Running

To run the client, from a command prompt in the flit-client folder, run:

 npm install
 npm run build
 npm start

To run the server, from a command prompt in the flit-server folder, run:

 npm install
 npm run build
 npm start

By default the client starts a service on port 3000, and the server on port 4000.

=== Docker

To run in docker, from the flit project directory, run:

docker compose up -d

This will build an image with node depenencies and start a container named flit_dev_1.

To start the client and server, connect to the container by running:

docker exec -ti dev_flit_1 bash

then, within the container, start the client with:

cd /usr/src/flit/flit-client
npm start

or the server with:

cd /usr/src/flit/flit-server
npm start

=== History flit-client was bootstrapped with create-react-app using the TypeScript template. The command used was npx create-react-app flit-client --template typescript.

flit-server contains the backend service, which was bootstrapped from the Microsoft TypeScript Node Starter repo. The command used was git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript-Node-Starter.git flit-server. After cloning the template repo, npm install was run, followed by npm audit fix to correct a set of security vulnerabilities.

The git repos created by both these bootstrap steps were then destroyed by calling rm -rf .git within the flit-client and flit-server directories, a new git repo was set up in the root directory with git init, and the initial state of both directories was committed to it.