Environmental Variables

This page will go over the specifics of the environmental variables you need to define when deploying locally.

JURY_NAME=
JURY_ADMIN_PASSWORD=

MONGODB_URI=

EMAIL_HOST=
EMAIL_PORT=
EMAIL_FROM=
EMAIL_FROM_NAME=
EMAIL_PASSWORD=
SENDGRID_API_KEY=

PORT=

The JURY_NAME and JURY_ADMIN_PASSWORD are simply the name of the app and the admin password that you are using for local development. This doesn't really matter as you are the only one accessing your local instance.

If you are using MongoDB Atlas, you should fill in the MONGODB_URI field using the instructions on the MongoDB Atlas starter guide. This is the recommended way to run the application locally. If you are instead running MongoDB locally, you will need to define the MONGODB_USER and MONGODB_PASS fields -- see the contributing page for more details.

For all email fields, refer to the information in the "Deploying for your Hackathon" page.

Finally, the definition of the PORT variable is optional -- specify this if you wish to connect to your app on a different port.