By Redis Team

The starter code is perfectly runnable if a bit thin. Let's configure and run it to make sure it works before we move on to writing actual code. First, get all the dependencies:

npm install

Then, set up a .env file in the root that Dotenv can make use of. There's a sample.env file in the root that you can copy and modify:

cp sample.env .env

The contents of .env looks like this:

# Put your local Redis Stack URL here. Want to run in the
# cloud instead? Sign up at https://redis.com/try-free/.
REDIS_URL=redis://localhost:6379

There's a good chance this is already correct. However, if you need to change the REDIS_URL for your particular environment (e.g., you're running Redis Stack in the cloud), this is the time to do it. Once done, you should be able to run the app:

npm start

Navigate to http://localhost:8080 and check out the client that Swagger UI Express has created. None of it works yet because we haven't implemented any of the routes. But, you can try them out and watch them fail! 

The starter code runs. Let's add some Redis OM to it so it actually does something!