This Backend uses Loopback, and API framework for node.js written by strongloop

• Clone this Repository
• Run npm install
• Install the strongloop CLI npm install -g stringloop

If you want to test with a local database, rather than one on Heroku, there are some additional steps

• Install PostgreSQL, (Or another database package if you prefer, you will need to make changes to the loopback installation)
• Create a database, give it the name "onboard_postgres"
• Navigate to the server folder in the project folder
• You should find the following two files "datasources.json" and "_datasources.json", rename them latter to the former and vice versa
  • The framework looks for the datasources.json file to configure the database
  • You can switch back to the other config file to connect to the heroku database
• Navigate to the project folder in the command line
• Run this command slc arc
• This will open the loopback GUI, click on each model and click the "migrate model" button

Now you should have a local database setup and working

• Go back to the command line and run the command slc run
• in the browser, navigate to localhost:3000/explorer for interactive documentation of the API