Tech Stack

Backend NodeJS Express server - Prod: pm2 to serve the express server - babel to transpile es6 code - webpack (using a source map) to just create one static file to serve with pm2 - Dev: nodemon to constantly watch for changes - might also be able to use pm2 for dev - babel to transpile es6 code

Front End React - Prod: probably just use npm run build and serve that directory statically - Dev: npm start to simply create the react dev server that watches for changes

Ensure you have a dbconfig that is simply an object export.
Include the `dateStrings: true` field in the object to ensure datestrings come out looking alright