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.

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

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

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For example, the demo code repository URL is:

https://github.com/sst/demo-notes-app.git

Initialize Your New Repo

Change indicator Now go to your project and use the following command to initialize your new repo.

$ git init

Change indicator Add the existing files.

$ git add .

Change indicator Create your first commit.

$ git commit -m "First commit"

Change indicator Link it to the repo you created on GitHub by running the following, replacing **** with your repository URL.

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

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

$ git push -u origin main

Now we are ready to build our backend!