1. Create venv, activate venv and install required libraries pip install -r requirements.txt 2. Make sure you have MySQL installed - Create a schema called 'shopping' with 'utf8' charset and 'utf8_unicode_ci' collection 3. Create your own `.env` file based on `.env.example` - change to your own MySQL username, password 4. Make sure you cd into the directory 5. Run 'run_app.py' 6. (Optional) if you want to just run the backend, use in command line uvicorn app.backend.main:app --reload