more details about setting environment variables for development

README.md

@@ -13,13 +13,19 @@ The API routes are in `./pages/api`. All files in this directory are treated as
 ## Development
 
 1. Clone this repository
-2. Copy `.env.example` to `.env` and fill in the environment variables
+2. Copy `.env.example` to `.env` and fill in the [environment variables](#environment-variables)
 3. Run `npm install` to install dependencies
 4. Run `npx prisma generate` to generate the local Prisma client (used for database interactions)
 5. Run `npm run dev` to run the development server (with hot reloading etc.) -- by default this will be on [port 3000](localhost:3000)
 
 Open [http://localhost:3000](http://localhost:3000) with your browser to see the result.
 
+### Environment Variables
+
+- Use [https://uclapi.com] to generate a Client ID and Client Secret. Set the callback URL to be `http://hosturl/api/auth/callback/uclapi` where `hosturl` is your host URL
+- For Postgres details, user=`enghub`, db=`enghub`, password=`enghub`, and host=`127.0.0.1`
+- NextAuth secret can be anything, but the URL must be commented out
+
 ## Database migrations
 
 Migrations are managed through Prisma. One potential workflow is: