DEPRECATED - no longer actively maintained

Profiles

A collection of health service provider profiles. Initially containing GP practices and Pharmacies.

Test environments

As the application is being developed, every Pull Request has its own test environment automatically built and deployed to.

Every environment apart from the one we want the public to access requires basic authentication to access. The username and password are not secret, in fact they are included within environment variable table below. The intention with the authentication challenge is to prevent people whom may stumble across the site and not realise it is for testing, it also prevents access by search engines and other bots.

Environment variables

Environment variables are expected to be managed by the environment in which the application is being run. This is best practice as described by twelve-factor.

Variable	Description	Default
`NODE_ENV`	node environment	development
`LOG_LEVEL`	numeric log level	Depends on `NODE_ENV`
`PORT`	server port	3000
`GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_TRACKING_ID`	Google Analytics property id
`WEBTRENDS_ANALYTICS_TRACKING_ID`	Webtrends tracking id
`HOTJAR_ANALYTICS_TRACKING_ID`	Hotjar tracking id
`BASIC_AUTH`	An MD5 encrypted htpasswd	test:test

Working on the application

Start by cloning the repo and all submodules i.e. git clone https://github.com/nhsuk/profiles.git && cd profiles/ && git submodule update --init --recursive

Next, check out the set of scripts for getting the application running scripts

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