text: // this ensures node understands the future
  require('@babel/register');
  const _ = require('lodash');
  const createDebugger = require('debug');
  
  const log = createDebugger('fcc:server:production-start');
  const startTime = Date.now();
  // force logger to always output
  // this may be brittle
  log.enabled = true;
  // this is where server starts booting up
  const app = require('./server');
  
  let timeoutHandler;
  let killTime = 15;
  
  const onConnect = _.once(() => {
    log('db connected in: %s', Date.now() - startTime);
    if (timeoutHandler) {
      clearTimeout(timeoutHandler);
    }
    app.start();
  });
  
  timeoutHandler = setTimeout(() => {
    const message = `db did not connect after ${killTime}s -- crashing hard`;
    // purposely shutdown server
    // pm2 should restart this in production
    throw new Error(message);
  }, killTime * 1000);
  
  app.dataSources.db.on('connected', onConnect);
  