Local Installation

1. Make sure you have node and npm installed (https://nodejs.org)
2. Run npm install to install all the dependencies for hosting the server
3. If you're using a local database for testing, install mysql-server and set up a database
4. Set the environment variables:
   • PORT - the port over which to host, default is 8000
   • USE_HTTPS - whether or not to enforce HTTPS-only cookies for the session, default is false
   • SECRET - the secret used by the session store manager, default is 'test secret'
   • DB_HOST - the database hostname, default is 'localhost'
   • DB_USER - the username for accessing the database, default is 'max'
   • DB_PASS - the password for accessing the database, default is 'secretpass'
   • DB_DATABASE - the name of the database to use, default is 'regex_visualiser'
5. Create a database regex_visualiser and run ./schema.sql to set up the correct tables
6. Run npm start to launch the web server