This app is a sample application meant to illustrate how to start up a new web app on the IC. The project was bootstrapped using npm init gatsby, with the following modifications:

• Changing src/pages/index.js to be our new app
• adding dfx.json to deploy the application on the IC

Then, to add an IC backend,

• Adds src/backend with HashMap logic
• adds gatsby-node to configure webpack to handle environment variables for the dfx-generated actor

Install the codebase with npm install

Follow directions to install dfx if you don't have it yet: https://sdk.dfinity.org/docs/index.html

run dfx start --background to start a replica;

run dfx deploy phone_book to deploy the backend canister

run npm start to spin up a development server

Run npm run build to compile the frontend app

Run dfx deploy --network=ic to deploy the app on Sodium