# Run API

You need to follow this command to run API, Once API runs you can use API endpoint in your app or dashboard.

```
$ cd api
$ npm install
$ npm run start // For development
```

You can also run this API with the help of [nodemon](https://nodemon.io/). You can install nodemon globally on your machine and just run nodemon command in API directly and API will start default port on 3000.

You can deploy this API to any server like Heroku, Digital Ocean, AWS and map with your Domain or IP and add an API endpoint to the mobile app, web app and dashboard.

### Release build

To create a release build run the following command.

```
npm run start:prod // For production
```


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