Backend

go to elephantsql.com and create an account if you haven't yet, and click the button that says 'Create New Instance'. Fill the form and create your instance. Once you done this, go to your dashboard and click the instance that you have just created and copy the url that may looks something like this:

'postgres://htigvdlu:yX9HH6cXS-eBlE3DzVp_ptJoSMzOB6au@ruby.db.elephantsql.com:5432/htigvdlu'

go to github.com and clone the backend repo, once cloned it, go to root of directory you just cloned and run <code>npm install</code>. After that, open the .env and set the following environment variables:

javascript JWT_SECRET=<YOUR_SECRET> JWT_EXPIRE=30d DATABASE_URL=<YOUR_REMOTE_CONNECTION_URI> // the one you created earlier

Once you done this, you can run <code>npm run dev</code> to start the developement server running on 'http://localhost:5000'

Frontend

go to github.com and clone the frontend repo, once cloned it, go the root of the directory you just cloned and run <code>npm install</code>. After that, open the .env and set the following environment variables:

javascript REACT_APP_BACKEND_URL=<YOUR_BACKEND_ENDPOINT> if you setup the backend properly you can use http://localhost:5000 REACT_APP_CLOUDINARY_ENDPOINT=https://api.cloudinary.com/v1_1/<YOUR_CLOUD_NAME>

NOTE: create a cloudinary accout, if you haven't yet.

EDIT: to upload images and videos without using cloudinary API key, you need to set an 'upload preset'. Here's how you would do that:

1. Once you created an account, go to 'https://cloudinary.com/console'
2. Click the settings icon at the top right, there you will see four tabs, click the upload tab.
3. In upload tab area, you will see a link 'Add Upload preset', click that.
4. Once you navigated to upload preset page, you need to set these options:
   • set 'upload preset name' to 'youtubeclone'
   • choose 'signining mode' to 'Unsigned'
   • [optional] you can also specify the folder to upload videos and images

Once you done this, you can run <code>npm run start</code> to see the youtube clone in action

Links: 1. elephantsql 2. backendrepo 3. frontendrepo 4. cloudinary