Since this project uses MySQL, you are going to need MySQL installed on your system
Once that is complete, create a localhost database on your machine, and change the enviornment variables in server/server.js at the top of the file according to your database
After you've created the database, create a table, blogs, with the columns of title, author, content
Proceed to the general setup below
General Setup
cd react-blog, run npm install, then run npm start
Open a seperate terminal, cd server, run npm install, then run npm start