kylewu/StarterPack_Node-Backend

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Starter pack for NodeJs API

Dependencies

• runs on node.js v5.11.1 / node.js v6
• express 4+
• heroku
• eslint
• mongodb
• POSTMAN chrome extension for verification

Configuration

• Edit configuration in config/default.json and
• custom environment variables names in config/custom-environment-variables.json,
• for example it will read MONGODB_URI as url of database from heroku.

Following variables can be configured:

• authSecret the secret for auth
• port the port to listen
• logLevel the log level debug or info
• version the version of api
• MONGODB_URI the mongo database URI

Heroku deployment

• You will need to install Heroku Toolbelt for this step if you don't already have it installed.

• In the main project folder, run the following commands:

    heroku login
    git init
    git add .
    git commit -m "init"
    heroku create
    heroku addons:create mongolab:sandbox
    git push heroku master
    heroku logs -t
    heroku open
  

Local Deployment

• Please make sure to configure url of database rightly in config/default.json or use environment variable MONGODB_URI.
• Install dependencies npm i
• run lint check npm run lint
• Start app npm start

Verification

• Load postman collection:
  • endpoints: docs/api.postman_collection.json
  • environment: docs/api.postman_environment.json

Authentication & Authorization

• It will use passport and it could support social feature to login as twitter, facebook easily.
• It will use src/app-passport.js to load passport strategies in src/passports, you can define auth:{name of passport strategy} in routes.js of module.
• You can also define access:[role1,role2], the user role name is from src/constants.js.
• It will check Authentication & Authorization in src/app-routes.js to secure the APIs.