Initialize a GitHub Repo

Before we start working on our app, let’s create a GitHub repository for this project. It’s a good way to store our code and we’ll use this repository later to automate deploying our app.

Create a New Github Repo

Let’s head over to GitHub. Make sure you are signed in and hit New repository.

Give your repository a name, in our case we are calling it demo-notes-app. Next hit Create repository.

Once your repository is created, copy the repository URL. We’ll need this soon.

In our case the URL is:

https://github.com/serverless-stack/demo-notes-app.git

Initialize Your New Repo

Now head back to your project and use the following command to initialize your new repo.

$ git init

Add the existing files.

$ git add .

Create your first commit.

$ git commit -m "First commit"

Link it to the repo you created on GitHub.

$ git branch -M main
$ git remote add origin REPO_URL

Here REPO_URL is the URL we copied from GitHub in the steps above. You can verify that it has been set correctly by doing the following.

$ git remote -v

Finally, let’s push our first commit to GitHub using:

$ git push -u origin main

Now we are ready to build our backend!