Speer Backend Assignment

Submission for the Backend assessment for role of Full Stack Developer at Speer Technologies.

The database used is MongoDB keeping speed and performance in mind along with scaling the DB with increase in users.

Running Tests

To run tests, run the following command

  npm run test

What this does is cleans up and injects data into the Testing DB

Clone the project

  git clone https://github.com/ananth243/speer-backend.git

Go to the project directory

  cd speer-backend

Following are the required environment variables

SECRET_KEY DBURI TEST_DBURI

The TEST_DBURI is a replica of the actual DB for E2E testing.

To run locally, you will need to have Nodejs installed along with MongoDB. Add the above environment variables to your .env file.

If you do not have a MongoDB instance available, you can use the one provisioned by Docker. Refer to the .env.example file for more information.

Install dependencies

  npm install

Start the server (After configuring env variables)

  npm start

Build the app

   docker build -t speer .

Start the containers

   docker compose up --build -d