This is only for devs.

1. Install mysql for your OS. Make sure you add mysql to the path variables for the next steps. Create a new user for this project if you wish to do so.
2. Install node for your OS. Make sure npm comes with your installation, else install that as well.
3. Clone all the 3 repos in the org: backend, user-frontend and admin-frontend (ideally, in a common folder somewhere on your PC for organization and debug support).
4. Each repo has .env.example in the root. Copy the file as .env for setting up dev credentials. The linux command would be cp .env.example .env executed in root of each repo.
5. The backend repo has another config file /config/config.json.example Copy this file as /config/config.json. Update the new file with your mysql creds: lines 4, 5, 8 The linux command would be cp config/config.json.example config/config.json executed in the root of backend.

1. In your terminal, login to your sql shell with mysql -u root -p or mysql -u username -p if you created a new user for the project.

2. Execute the following sql commands to create the database for this project. Note: These are multi-line queries.

   CREATE DATABASE cac
   DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4
   DEFAULT COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
   
   USE cac;
   
   -- Set the timezone to UTC
   SET time_zone = '+00:00';
   
   -- Set InnoDB as the default storage engine
   SET default_storage_engine=INNODB;

3. In the rot of backend, execute the command npx sequelize db:migrate

In each repo root, run npm run dev to bring up the dev server. By default the following PORTS are used.

1. Backend: 5000
2. Admin Frontend: 4000
3. User Frontend: 3000