service dependencies

elasticsearch
install tutorial

setup

vm/npm

npm run prestart:prod
npm run start:prod
- one should use a process management tool
http POST localhost:3000/data/init
- this will create and map required elasticsearch indices

Docker

docker build -t youcanbenefit-api .
docker run -p 3000:3000 youcanbenefit-api

Docker-Compose

intended usage

check the deploy repository

deets

It has three accessible routes:

/protected/...
/api/...
/data/...

There is no authentication service provided.

Since this is a small single tenant application auth is very straightforward. My implementation is a reverse proxy that handles basic auth and forwards the request. See the Caddyfile in the deploy repo.

src/modules/constants.readonly.ts is where the environment variables are interpreted.