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+# FoxBank
+
+Project, Web Technologies, Year 3, Semester 1
+
+## How to build
+
+The design is modular: the client and the server can be hosted independently. This allows the client to be hosted on a static web host (for example GitHub Pages), and for the server to be hosted on another service. The client must know the address where the server is located.
+
+### Client
+
+Make sure to change the `baseURL` in `client/src/api.js`. The `baseURL` should point to the address of the server.
+
+```js
+const baseURL = "https://foxbank-api.extras.dcdevelop.xyz";
+// or
+const baseURL = "http://localhost:5000";
+```
+
+After changing the `baseURL`, build using the following commands:
+
+```sh
+cd client
+npm install     # or yarn
+npm run build   # or yarn run build
+```
+
+After running those commands, the `client/public` folder contains the client files to be deployed on the server.
+
+### Server
+
+The best way to deploy the server is using Docker:
+
+```sh
+cd server
+docker build -t foxbank .
+```
+
+And then run the server using:
+
+```sh
+PORT=5000       # set port here
+DATA_DIR=./data # set directory for server data here
+docker run -p $PORT:5000 -v $DATA_DIR:/app/data foxbank
+```
+
+---
+
+In order to ease the deployment of the server, [Docker Compose](https://docs.docker.com/compose/) can be used:
+
+```sh
+cd server
+export PORT=5000 # set port here
+docker-compose up -d
+```
+
+Check the `server/run.sh` script for further reference.
+
+---
+
+If you don't want to use Docker, use [`pipenv`](https://pipenv.pypa.io/en/latest/) to install the Python dependencies and run the project manually:
+
+```sh
+cd server
+pipenv install
+PORT=5000 # set port here
+pipenv run gunicorn -b 0.0.0.0:$PORT server:app
+```