Team Members: Ibraheem Amin (lead) Abu Ahmed, Cole Ramer, Richard Wang, John Wu

First Time Setup

Convex Database

cd packages/convex-backend
bun install
npx convex login
npx convex dev

Create a new cloud deployment following the instructions, then a .env.local file will generate under packages/convex-backend

Copy over the environment variable that ends in .cloud to a new .env.local variable under apps/web, then set VITE_CONVEX_URL:

VITE_CONVEX_URL=https://your-deployment.convex.cloud

Clerk Setup

Join the clerk team (contact the team lead) OR Create a new Clerk project, from the API, copy over the two following environment variables from the Clerk dashboard into apps/web/.env.local

VITE_CLERK_PUBLISHABLE_KEY=pk_test_...
CLERK_SECRET_KEY=sk_test_...

Finally, set the CLERK_JWT_ISSUER_DOMAIN variable on the Convex Dashboard.

# Either go to convex dashboard manually or run
cd packages/convex-backend
npx convex dashboard

Navigate to settings -> environment variables and set

CLERK_JWT_ISSUER_DOMAIN=https://your-clerk-depl.clerk.accounts.dev

Utilities

Already set up

• TypeScript for static type checking
• Biome for code linting and formatting

Useful Links

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• Tasks
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• Filtering
• Configuration Options
• CLI Usage