my-covid-story / www

We are a group of concerned citizens who could no longer stand by as Ontario is led into a humanitarian crisis. We believe the power of storytelling is an effective means to drive government action.

My Covid Story

This is an extremely early MVP, so there is a lot to do.

Our stack / architecture is:

• NextJS hosted on Vercel (already setup here)
• Prisma as our ORM (makes things pretty smooth)
• PostgreSQL Managed Database from Digital Ocean.

Quick Start

1. Clone this repo.
2. Install dependencies with npm i.
3. Copy .env.template to .env.
4. Get a local postgres db running. Docker is probably easiest, but local postgres would also work. With Docker installed, run docker run --name my-covid-story-dev -p 5432:5432 -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=mycovidstory -d postgres:12.6-alpine (this will match the DB URL string in .env).
5. Run npx prisma migrate deploy to apply migrations in prisma/migrations.
6. Run npx prisma db seed --preview-feature to see test data from prisma/seed.ts.
7. Run npm run dev to start the dev server. Open http://localhost:3000 in your browser to see the app.
8. Run npm test to run the test suite. This also gets run automatically on each Pull Request.

Prisma Migrate

We use Prisma Migrate to manage the evolution of our database schema. To work around a current limitation in Prisma, we exclude certain relation fields from the schema when running prisma migrate.

These fields are marked with a //nomigrate comment in the schema.prisma file. Excluding them is handled automatically by the prisma.sh wrapper script for the prisma CLI. For simplicity, you can always use ./prisma.sh intead of npx prisma and the script will do the right thing.

Learn More

This is a Next.js application bootstrapped with create-next-app and deployed on the Vercel Platform. To learn more about Next.js, take a look at the following resources:

• Next.js Documentation - learn about Next.js features and API.
• Learn Next.js - an interactive Next.js tutorial.
• Next.js deployment documentation - deployment on Vercel.

You can check out the Next.js GitHub repository - your feedback and contributions are welcome!