diff --git a/backend/db.js b/app/db/db.js
similarity index 100%
rename from backend/db.js
rename to app/db/db.js
diff --git a/backend/utils/arethereanynewitems.js b/app/lib/arethereanynewitems.js
similarity index 100%
rename from backend/utils/arethereanynewitems.js
rename to app/lib/arethereanynewitems.js
diff --git a/backend/utils/convertToDate.js b/app/lib/convertToDate.js
similarity index 100%
rename from backend/utils/convertToDate.js
rename to app/lib/convertToDate.js
diff --git a/backend/utils/scraptheitems.js b/app/lib/scraptheitems.js
similarity index 100%
rename from backend/utils/scraptheitems.js
rename to app/lib/scraptheitems.js
diff --git a/backend/utils/sendnotification.js b/app/lib/sendnotification.js
similarity index 100%
rename from backend/utils/sendnotification.js
rename to app/lib/sendnotification.js
diff --git a/backend/MarketAlert.js b/app/models/MarketAlert.js
similarity index 89%
rename from backend/MarketAlert.js
rename to app/models/MarketAlert.js
index 3c800c8..5150ac3 100644
--- a/backend/MarketAlert.js
+++ b/app/models/MarketAlert.js
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 const Sequelize = require("sequelize");
-const sequelize = require("./db.js");
+const sequelize = require("../db/db");
 const MarketAlert = sequelize.define("market_alert", {
   id: {
     type: Sequelize.INTEGER,
diff --git a/backend/.env b/backend/.env
deleted file mode 100644
index c5ca10f..0000000
--- a/backend/.env
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-AWS_ENVIRONMENT=development
-AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=your_key
-AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=your_secret
-AWS_PROFILE=
-AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=
-AWS_ROLE_ARN=your_amazon_role
-AWS_REGION=us-east-1
-AWS_FUNCTION_NAME=
-AWS_HANDLER=index.handler
-AWS_MEMORY_SIZE=128
-AWS_TIMEOUT=3
-AWS_DESCRIPTION=
-AWS_RUNTIME=nodejs6.10
-AWS_VPC_SUBNETS=
-AWS_VPC_SECURITY_GROUPS=
-AWS_TRACING_CONFIG=
-AWS_LOGS_RETENTION_IN_DAYS=
-EXCLUDE_GLOBS="event.json"
-PACKAGE_DIRECTORY=build
diff --git a/backend/.gitignore b/backend/.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index c2658d7..0000000
--- a/backend/.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-node_modules/
diff --git a/backend/README.md b/backend/README.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c642703..0000000
--- a/backend/README.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-# How to deploy automatically: 
-
-1. set up aws cli with aws configure 
-
diff --git a/backend/context.json b/backend/context.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 9e26dfe..0000000
--- a/backend/context.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-{}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/backend/deploy.env b/backend/deploy.env
deleted file mode 100644
index 71bbee5..0000000
--- a/backend/deploy.env
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-SECRET_VARIABLE=mysecretval
diff --git a/backend/event.json b/backend/event.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 61696a1..0000000
--- a/backend/event.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "key": "value",
-  "key2": "value2",
-  "other_key": "other_value"
-}
diff --git a/backend/event_sources.json b/backend/event_sources.json
deleted file mode 100644
index c3aae42..0000000
--- a/backend/event_sources.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "EventSourceMappings": [
-    {
-      "EventSourceArn": "your event source arn",
-      "StartingPosition": "LATEST",
-      "BatchSize": 100,
-      "Enabled": true
-    }
-  ],
-  "ScheduleEvents": [
-    {
-      "ScheduleName": "node-lambda-test-schedule",
-      "ScheduleState": "ENABLED",
-      "ScheduleExpression": "rate(1 hour)",
-      "Input":
-        {
-          "key1": "value",
-          "key2": "value"
-        }
-    }
-  ],
-  "S3Events": [{
-    "Bucket": "BUCKET_NAME",
-    "Events": [
-      "s3:ObjectCreated:*"
-    ],
-    "Filter": {
-      "Key": {
-        "FilterRules": [{
-          "Name": "prefix",
-          "Value": "STRING_VALUE"
-        }]
-      }
-    }
-  }]
-}
diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index 19ff662..d310870 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 let express = require("express");
 const path = require("path");
 const bodyParser = require("body-parser");
-const MarketAlert = require("./backend/MarketAlert");
-const sendNotification = require("./backend/utils/sendnotification");
-const scrapTheItems = require("./backend/utils/scraptheitems");
-const sequelize = require("./backend/db.js");
+const MarketAlert = require("./app/models/MarketAlert");
+const sendNotification = require("./app/lib/sendnotification");
+const scrapTheItems = require("./app/lib/scraptheitems");
+const sequelize = require("./app/db/db");
 const Twocheckout = require("2checkout-node");
 
 const app = express();