Make sure you have `nodemon` and `node-sass` installed
`$ npm install -g nodemon node-sass`


Run the following at the same time, in two terminals

```
$ API=http://localhost:3001 nodemon server.js
$ node-sass -w sass/application.scss public/css/application.css
```

To run the server as a daemon that will be re-run if it crashes, you can
use the forever node package.
```
$ npm install -g forever
$ forever start server.js
```

Run the metamaps api in another terminal using
`$ rails s -p 3001`

Checklist
- [x] Get the Import lightbox working, and not conflicting on screen
- [x] Handling CSRF
- [x] Fix images referenced in the JS
- [x] Figure out how authentication of requests from the frontend to the API works
- [x] Figure out how to combine the nodejs realtime server into server.js
- [x] Notifications: make sure loading states are working for popup and page
- [x] Request unreadNotificationCount
- [x] Request invite code
- [x] Request user object itself
- [x] Load the metacodes
- [x] move ImportDialog lightbox into main app
- [x] create topic form

- [ ] create synapse form
- [ ] replace old loader with react loader
- [ ] ensure exports of maps work
- [ ] Notifications: make sure notifications either look nice, or redirect
- [ ] Notifications: pagination
- [ ] Get actioncable working
- [ ] lightboxes
- [ ] About lightbox
- [ ] Switch Metacodes lightbox / component
- [ ] Fork map lightbox / component
- [ ] break up index.html into parts
- [ ] Handle CSS metacode colors
- [ ] Fix Request An Invite page
- [ ] Make 'new map' action work
- [ ] Modify the remaining rails templates into JSX templates
  - [x] notifications list
  - [x] notification page
  - [ ] list metacodes
  - [ ] new metacode
  - [ ] edit metacode
  - [ ] list metacode_sets
  - [ ] new metacode set
  - [ ] edit metacode set
  - [ ] authorized apps
  - [ ] registered apps
  - [ ] authorize
  - [ ] user passwords
- [ ] Modify the RubyOnRails app to only serve JSON responses, no HTML pages anymore
- [ ] Modify the frontend to request that data from the API which is necessary at first to load the page
  - [ ] Load the metacode sets