fcc-heroku-rest-api

A REST API built on Express.
It uses babel during development which allows for writing ES6 and beyond. NPM scripts for linting, autorestarts and transpiling. Works on Heroku's servers.

Requirements

Node requirements
Mongo requirements
Heroku requirements (CLI tools)

Initial Setup

Make sure you have Mongo up and running.
In a new terminal window

git clone https://github.com/zklinger2000/fcc-heroku-rest-api.git
cd fcc-heroku-rest-api
npm install

Environment Variables file

Before we try and run the app, we need to create our hidden environment variables file

touch .env In a text editor, add these entries to the file:

PORT=8050
NODE_ENV=development
API_URL=http://localhost:8050
WEB_APP_URL=http://localhost:8000
MONGODB_URI=mongodb://localhost:27017/fcc-heroku-rest-api
JWT_SECRET=makeUpALongStringOfCharsAnd123
FB_CLIENT_ID=xxxxxxxxxxxx
FB_CLIENT_SECRET=xxxxxxxxxxxxx
FB_LOGIN_CALLBACK=http://localhost:8050/login/facebook/return

Facebook Setup

Create a new web app
set app variables from facebook in .env file
Under Facebook Login settings, set Redirect URI to http://localhost:8050/login/facebook/return

Run app in 'development' mode

npm run dev:start
Open a browser and head to http://localhost:8050 If you see 'Deployed!', then it is running.

If you get this far without any errors, you basically have a working Express backend in your local dev environment.

Heroku Setup

Create Heroku App

From the git project's root directory

heroku create some-app-name // name your app

Mongo

Go to the app page on Heroku's website.
Under 'Resources' install mLab MongoDB

Update Environment Variables on Heroku

On the app page under 'Settings' click on 'Reveal Config Vars'
Add all the keys except MONGODB_URI and PORT.
Set NODE_ENV to production
git push heroku master

At this point you should see the build process on Heroku's server. You should see 'Build succeeded!' and 'Launching...' at the end of the build process.

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