diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
deleted file mode 100644
index eb5e65d..0000000
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-# Tell Linguist to exclude HTML files to help Replit language detection.
-*.html linguist-vendored
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 3c3629e..37d7e73 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 node_modules
+.env
diff --git a/.gitpod.yml b/.gitpod.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..263f6fa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitpod.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+image: gitpod/workspace-node-lts
+
+ports:
+  - port: 3000
+    onOpen: open-preview
+    visibility: public
+
+tasks:
+  - init: npm install
+    command: npm run start
+
+vscode:
+  extensions:
+    - https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/freecodecamp-dark-vscode-theme/releases/download/v1.0.0/freecodecamp-dark-vscode-theme-1.0.0.vsix
diff --git a/.prettierignore b/.prettierignore
deleted file mode 100644
index 9736424..0000000
--- a/.prettierignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-.replit
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.vscode/settings.json b/.vscode/settings.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e0e0236
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.vscode/settings.json
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+{
+  "workbench.colorTheme": "freeCodeCamp Dark Theme"
+}
diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index c4749d0..bde5ff7 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ app.get("/api/hello", function (req, res) {
 
 
 
-// listen for requests :)
-var listener = app.listen(process.env.PORT, function () {
+// Listen on port set in environment variable or default to 3000
+var listener = app.listen(process.env.PORT || 3000, function () {
   console.log('Your app is listening on port ' + listener.address().port);
 });
diff --git a/sample.env b/sample.env
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2fc80e3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sample.env
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+PORT=3000