/safelabs-back-js

Back project (Node React web) for the SafeLabs challenge

Primary LanguageJavaScript

SafeLabs-back-js

How to run

First of all, we need to set the environment variables.

You can either create a .env file based on the .env.example file or you can set the environment variables directly in your terminal (great for CI/CD).

Then you can execute the following command to run the application:

docker-compose -f .\docker-compose.yml up -d -V --remove-orphans --build

And now you can visit the application on the setted port.


Report

This project uses a structure based on services that controls the flow of the application.

The index.js sets the environment and runs the application, also handling caught exceptions.

Then the apis handles the endpoints, receiving the data from client and repassing it to the service.

Theres a big string of documentation on the route, but it's really useful for the swagger to auto generate a documentation.

The swagger documentation is created by the swagger.js file, which is the file executed when the application is started, and the documentation is served through the index.js.

I also documented everything i thought could be be useful with jsdoc strings, whose permit to see typings on IDE and smooths the development experience.

The spotify api was a bit harder because of the way it deals with tokens, so i created a spotifyApi, which is a http client that can handle set the token on pre-request, and refresh it whenever it expires.

I also created a validator, to have a better control of the data, and to have a better error handling.

Speaking of erros, i created custom erros, so it's easier to understand what, why, and where it went wrong.

On index.js i set the CORS to allow all origins, so the application can be used on any origin, and it can be changed later based on the application scope (because i didn't know if it's supposed to be open to anyone or closed for the corporation).

Some functions were created inside the Service, but it's purpose is to create a standard way to get the data, in case an external API needs to be changed, ensuring an easier change.

This project uses a .env for secret variables, making it more secure and easier to deploy to different environments (an staging environment and a production environment for example).

If both the city and coordinates are provided, the city has the priority, just because the weather API works the same way, i tested.