Research Mentorship Frontend

🛠️ Installation Steps

Important

This project uses the new Node.js 22 as runtime, TypeScript as dev language, and pnpm as package manager. You can read more about these handy tools here:

Node.js 22: https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v22.2.0

TypeScript: https://nextjs.org/docs/app/building-your-application/configuring/typescript

Pnpm: https://pnpm.io/

1. Set up Git; and set up Node.js 22 via nvm

Download Git version control: https://git-scm.com/downloads

Download Node.js 22: https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager

# Confirm git and node (npm) are installed correctly.
git --version
npm --verison

2. Clone the repository and change to the project directory.

git clone https://github.com/data-glow-gh/devosu-research-mentorship-frontend.git

cd devosu-research-mentorship-frontend

3. Enable pnpm using corepack and install the dependencies.

# Declare usage of pnpm and install globally using corepack.
corepack use pnpm@latest
corepack install --global pnpm@latest

# For pnpm routine updates.
corepack up

4. You are now ready to contribute!!

# Start the local development server after setting up .env.development.local
# according to env vars required by .env.sample.
pnpm run dev