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Setup for Local Development

• Firstly Install nvm (Node Version Manager) and instal Node version 18.x and 16.x since the frontend and backend use two separate versions.
• run npm install in the project root directory and inside the /backend directory (don't forget to switch to Node v16.x when installing dependencies or running the strapi environment inside /backend).
• within the /backend directory find .env.example, make a .env file resembling the example file, for,

APP_KEYS="toBeModified1,toBeModified2"
API_TOKEN_SALT=tobemodified
ADMIN_JWT_SECRET=tobemodified
JWT_SECRET=tobemodified

replace tobemodified with any random base64 string (you can find many base64 generators online).

• populate the strapi server with some dummy content before making api calls.

• In the project root create an .env.development file and populate it with the following fields,

    STRAPI_TOKEN=<your api key here>
    STRAPI_API_URL=http://127.0.0.1:1337
  

• To generate your own API Key start the strapi development server within /backend with npm run develop, head over to admin panel localhost:1337/admin and create an account and wait for the admin to assign you permissions to create your own API key.

• To start the frontend run gatsby develop in the root (remember to install gatsby globally with npm install -g gatsby-cli)