Build-a-Storefront-Backend

Project 2: Build a Storefront Backend

Installation Instructions:

install all packages in this project. npm install

Set up Database:

when you npm install to install all dependencies db-migrate up to set up the database and get access via http://127.0.0.1:3000 npm run start to build the app and running

Also You need the following modules and dependencies installed to run this project:

docker-compose   # To run the Postgres database on Docker
node 12          # To run the application
yarn             # For dependency management

Create a user and the databases with the psql commands:

    CREATE USER shopping_user WITH PASSWORD '0000';
    CREATE DATABASE shopping;
    CREATE DATABASE shopping_user_test;
    GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE shopping TO shopping_user_test;
    GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE shopping_user_test TO shopping_user;

Setup environment

create a .env form file .env.example with all the required environment variables:

# .env
POSTGRES_HOST=127.0.0.1
POSTGRES_DB=shopping
POSTGRES_TEST_DB=shopping_user_test
POSTGRES_USER=shopping_user
POSTGRES_PASSWORD=password123
ENV=dev

BCRYPT_PASSWORD=hi-there
SALT_ROUNDS=10
TOKEN=udacity-storefront

Running Ports

After start up, the server will start on port 3000 and the database on port 5432

Starting

Start app with npm run start or npm run watch

Run all the tests

npm run testEnv