Welcome To CAPSLOCK API Repo! First Setup Install MongoDB Service from Here Install Node.js from Here Clone this repo to your local machine using git clone https://github.com/capslock-bmdc/core-server.git Go to the path of your local repo and run npm i Create a new file in the main directory that called .env and put there DATABASE_URL=mongodb://localhost/capslock The party is begin! Contributing Pull this repo to your local machine using git clone https://github.com/capslock-bmdc/core-server.git Create your feature branch: git checkout -b my-feature Commit your changes: git commit -am 'Add some feature' Push to the branch: git push origin my-feature Submit a pull request :D Prerequisites NPM Node.js Express.js MongoDB NPM Scripts "start": node server.js "devStart": nodemon server.js