Chicago Eats Ledger

A modern React frontend with an AWS-ready Express backend using DynamoDB for shared persistence.

Local development

1. Install dependencies:

   npm install

2. Start frontend + backend together:

   npm run dev

3. Open http://localhost:4174

Production build

npm run build

Start server

npm start

AWS deployment notes

• server/server.js uses DynamoDB and environment variables:

  • AWS_REGION
  • DYNAMODB_TABLE (default: ChicagoEatsLedgerSpots)

• Create a DynamoDB table with pk as the partition key (string).

• Deploy the built dist folder with Node on AWS Elastic Beanstalk, ECS, or AWS App Runner.

• Ensure AWS credentials are available to the runtime environment.