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 [![frontend](https://github.com/evroon/bracket/actions/workflows/frontend.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/evroon/bracket/actions/workflows/frontend.yml)
 
 Ladder tournament system meant to be easy to use.
+Bracket written in async Python (with FastAPI) and Next.js as frontend using the [Mantine](https://mantine.dev/) library.
+
+![Preview](misc/img/preview.png)
 
 # Setup
-### Frontend
-```
-yarn
-npm run dev
-```
-
-### Backend
-```
-./run.sh
-```
 
 
-#### Database
-Create a new `bracket` database in a `bracket` cluster:
-
+## Database
+First create a `bracket` cluster:
 ```shell
 sudo pg_createcluster -u postgres -p 5532 13 bracket
 pg_ctlcluster 13 bracket start
-
 ```
 
+Subsequently, create a new `bracket_dev` database (and `bracket_ci` for tests):
 ```shell
 sudo -Hu postgres psql  -p 5532
 CREATE USER bracket_ci WITH PASSWORD 'bracket_ci';
 CREATE DATABASE bracket_ci OWNER bracket_ci;
 ```
 
-```shell
-sudo -Hu postgres psql  -p 5532
-CREATE USER bracket_dev WITH PASSWORD 'bracket_dev';
-CREATE DATABASE bracket_dev OWNER bracket_dev;
+You can do the same but replace the user and database name with:
+- `bracket_ci`: for running tests
+- `bracket_prod`: for a production database
+
+The database URL can be specified per environment in the `.env` files (see [config](#config)).
+
+## Config
+Copy [ci.env](backend/ci.env) to `prod.env` and fill in the values:
+- `PG_DSN`: The URL of the PostgreSQL database
+- `JWT_SECRET`: Create a random secret using `openssl rand -hex 32`
+- `CORS_ORIGINS` and `CORS_ORIGIN_REGEX`: Specify allowed frontend domain names for CORS (see the [FastAPI docs](https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/tutorial/cors/))
+- `ADMIN_EMAIL` and `ADMIN_PASSWORD`: The credentials of the admin user, which is created when initializing the database
+
+
+## Running the frontend and backend
+The following starts the frontend and backend for local development:
+### Frontend
+```
+cd frontend
+yarn
+npm run dev
 ```
 
-### Config
-Put JWT_SECRET in prod.env using `openssl rand -hex 32`
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+### Backend
+```
+cd backend
+./run.sh
+```
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