Initialize the Frontend Repo

Just as we did in the backend portion, we’ll start by creating our project and adding it to GitHub. We will use what we had in Part I as a starting point.

Clone the Original Repo

In your working directory, start by cloning the original repo. Make sure this is not inside the directory for our backend.

$ git clone --branch update-the-app --depth 1 https://github.com/AnomalyInnovations/serverless-stack-demo-client.git serverless-stack-2-client/
$ cd serverles-stack-2-client/

And remove the .git/ dir.

$ rm -rf .git/

Let’s install our Node modules.

$ npm install

Create a New GitHub Repo

Let’s head over to GitHub. Make sure you are signed in and hit New repository.

Give your repository a name, in our case we are calling it serverless-stack-2-client. And hit Create repository.

Once your repository is created, copy the repository URL. We’ll need this soon.

In our case the URL is:

https://github.com/jayair/https://github.com/jayair/serverless-stack-2-client.git

Initialize Your New Repo

Now head back to your project and use the following command to initialize your new repo.

$ git init

Add the existing files.

$ git add .

Create your first commit.

$ git commit -m "First commit"

Link it to the repo you created on GitHub.

$ git remote add origin REPO_URL

Here REPO_URL is the URL we copied from GitHub in the steps above. You can verify that it has been set correctly by doing the following.

$ git remote -v

Finally, let’s push our first commit to GitHub using:

$ git push -u origin master

Next let’s look into configuring our frontend client with the environments that we have in our backend.