We will be building an API for the purpose of accessing application data programmatically. The intention here is to mimic the building of a real world backend service (such as reddit) which should provide this information to the front end architecture.
The database will be PSQL, and you will interact with it using node-postgres.
Link to my Trello Board here: https://trello.com/b/1dsCVDcp
As .env.* is added to the .gitignore, anyone who wishes to clone the repo will not have access to the necessary environment variables.
In order to to create the environment variables. Creat 2 files, one named .env.test and the other named .env.development.
Within these files add the code PGDATABASE=