siimee/backend

siimee backend API

An API for the siimee application

:white_check_mark: Prerequisites

You will need…

Node.js 14+

• OSX: brew install node using Homebrew
• Linux: apt install nodejs (see Ubuntu/Debian specific instructions) or pacman -S nodejs (Arch Linux)
• Windows: Install

:package: Installation

1. Install dependencies with npm install
2. Copy the environments sample file from ./backend/.env.sample and rename it to ./backend/.env
3. Fill out your database connection details in ./backend/.env
4. A test database container is provided and can be started with docker-compose up -d
5. Populate some basic tables for your database using npm run generate && npm run reseed

:package: Installing Brevo

This note is added in case Brevo fails to install correctly, as it requires some extra configuration:

1. Should brevo fail to work upon spinning up, ensure that brevo is installed:

npm install @getbrevo/brevo --save

1. Then run ‘npm install’ again.
2. Link the brevo package globally by running ‘npm link’.
3. You’ll also need to link it directly within the backend directory (here):

npm link .

Transactional emails using the Brevo api should now be working.

:package: Migrations

We use Knex.js,which comes with a couple nice database migration and seeding tools. Migrating tracks changes in schema. Migration steps are contained in the ./db/migrations folder. Seeding adds dummy data once our database tables have been created and schemas are set. Starting seed steps are contained in ./db/seeds and use the mock.js file as the main dummy data source.

Migrating

• Run npm run migrate to run all migrations and establish the base schema
• Run npm run unmigrate to roll back one migration

Seeding

• Run npm run generate to generate dummy data
• Run npm run seed to seed the database with generated dummy data

Restarting

Since we can’t unseed the database, it’s best to destroy the dev database and rebuild it.

1. Stop the database by navigating to the project root directory cd ../ and running docker-compose down
2. Destroy the database volume docker volume rm siimee_siimee_db. BE CAREFUL.
3. Restart the database while still at the project root with docker-compose up -d
4. Recreate schemas,tables and dummy data by navigating to ./backend and running npm run reseed

:electric_plug: Run

1. Run npm run start to start up the server
2. Check http://localhost:3001/documentation to see the interactive API documentation

:robot: Deployment

TBD

:pill: Tests & Code Quality

Tests are run with AVA with code coverage reporting via nyc. Look at the example test for ideas, as well as the ava documentation

• Run tests with coverage report with npm test

:heart: Built With

• Hapi - Happy APIs
• Objection - Light ORM
• Knex.js - Query builder
• Schiwfty - Model layer
• Ava - Easy testing
• Nyc - Test coverage with Istanbul’s CLI

TRUNCATE TABLES IN PRODUCTION

users, responses, profiles, authentication TRUNCATE TABLE users; TRUNCATE TABLE responses; TRUNCATE TABLE profiles; TRUNCATE TABLE authentication;