Nodejs Backend

Nodejs backend for managing and demonstrating my projects. Features currently implemeneted include:

DeepMindAI - Processing of images
Google Maps, Place Services, autocomplete lookup
Middleware and Express Routing
Winston Logging
Sophisticated Multiple User type based middleware routing, - Redis, Express, Custom Middleware parsing

Todos

Write Tests
Docker integration
PostgreSQL integration and database management for users

Tech

Made possible due to the great work by:

Google -google map services
node.js - evented I/O for the backend
Express - fast node.js network app framework [@tjholowaychuk]
PassPort - Simple, unobtrusive authentication for Node.js
Redis - In-memory data structures
Momentjs - Parse, validate, manipulate, and display dates and times in JavaScript.
Request - Http requests
Q - Promise library for javascript
Winston - A logger for just about anything
DeepAI - API for accessing Google's Deep Mind API
Dillinger.io - Markdown Formatting and editing

Installation

Requires Node.js v8+ to run. Although untested it may run on earlier versions just fine.

npm install
You will need to setup the config file see below for details
Start the server with either:
- Development Standard: npm start
- Development Auto-reload: npm run dev
- Production: npm run serve

Config File

Below is a template for the config json, the filename should be config.json and placed in the root directory of the application. For the DeepAI API key please see DeepAI and see the Google Console for details.

{
    "GOOGLE": {
        "TEST" : {
            "MAPS" : ""
        }, 
        
        "LIVE" : {
            "MAPS" : ""
        }
    },

    "DEEP_AI" : {
        "KEY": ""
    }
}

License

MIT