added check for envs and mongo uri, updated readme

2 files changed, 17 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/web/README.md b/web/README.md
index 244c216..b56efa5 100644
--- a/web/README.md
+++ b/web/README.md
@@ -1,14 +1,15 @@
 # The web component
 
-## How to run in your local env:
+## How to run in your LOCAL env:
 
 ### Requirements
+
 1. docker (or local mongodb install)
 2. npm
 
 #### Steps
 
-1. Spawn up a docker container with mongodb
+1. Spawn up a docker container with mongodb OR start mongo from local install
 
   `docker run -d --name mymongo -p 27017:27017 mongo`
 
@@ -30,13 +31,13 @@
 
   Then open your browser to `localhost:3000`
 
-You should be greeted with a page with a map.
+You should be greeted with a page with a map. From next time onwards, just start up the mongo container with `docker start mymongo`.
 
 ## You can view the current latest production site on Heroku (master branch)
 
-[here]()
+not yet.
 
 ## You can view the current latest QA site on Heroku (qa branch)
 
-[here]()
+https://helpthehome-qa.herokuapp.com/
 
diff --git a/web/routes/index.js b/web/routes/index.js
index 896fdae..73520b0 100644
--- a/web/routes/index.js
+++ b/web/routes/index.js
@@ -4,8 +4,18 @@ var router = express.Router();
 // Mongoose import
 var mongoose = require('mongoose');
 
+var env = process.env.NODE_ENV || 'development';
+var uri;
+if (env === 'development') {
+    uri = 'mongodb://localhost:27017/helpthehome'
+} else if (env === 'qa') {
+    uri = process.env.MONGODB_URI
+} else if (env === 'production') {
+    uri = ''
+}
+
 // Mongoose connection to MongoDB
-mongoose.connect('mongodb://localhost:27017/helpthehome', { useNewUrlParser: true }, function (error) {
+mongoose.connect(uri, { useNewUrlParser: true }, function (error) {
     if (error) {
         console.log(error);
     } else {