initial commit with changes for react-ladies

Author: M0nica

README.md

@@ -1,32 +1,45 @@
-# QueerJS
+# React Ladies
 
 ## Getting Started
 
-To run this site locally,
+To run this site locally you will need to configure an AIRTABLE_KEY (user-level access to your Airtable account), 
+AIRTABLE_BASE (spreadsheet level access to an Airtable base) and AIRTABLE_TABLE (table level access within an Airtable base).
 
-1. Create a file in the project root called `.env.production` with the contents `GATSBY_AIRTABLE_KEY=somekey`. `somekey` needs to be a valid AirTable API key; if you're part of QueerJS and need the real API key, ask another organizer to give it to you.
+1. Create a file in the project root called `.env.production` with the contents `AIRTABLE_KEY=somekey`. `somekey` needs to be a valid AirTable API key; if you're part of React Ldies and need the real API key, ask another organizer to give it to you.
+   
+2. add `AIRTABLE_BASE=somebase`. `somebase` needs to be a valid Airtable Base ID.
 
-2. Run the following in terminal: 
+3. add `AIRTABLE_TABLE=tablename`. `tablename` needs to be a valid Airtable Table ID.
+
+3. Run the following in terminal: 
+To install the `netlify-cli` in order to be able to run the registration function locally. 
 
 ```sh
+npm install -g netlify-cli
 npm i
-npm run dev
+npm run start
 ```
 
 or 
 
 ```sh
+yarn add -g netlify-cli 
 yarn install
-yarn run dev
+yarn start
 ```
 
-3. Navigate to `http://localhost:8000`.
+1. Navigate to `http://localhost:8888`.
+
+If you'd like to run the site without setting up Netlify functions locally then you can run `yarn dev` or `npm run dev` instead of `start` and then navigate to the site at  `http://localhost:8000`.
 
-## Adding a New Meetup City
 
-- Go to data and make a new YAML file for your city
+## Adding a New Event
+
+- Go to data and make a new YAML file for your location
 - Website to make google calendar links: https://decomaan.github.io/google-calendar-link-generator/
 
-If you discover any bugs in this site, please [file an issue](https://github.com/queerjs/website/issues/new).
+If you discover any bugs in this site, please [file an issue](https://github.com/react-ladies/website/issues/new).
+
+This website was originally based off of a fork of -> https://github.com/queerjs/website. 
 
 Thank you ✨