Storefront Backend Project

Technologies

• Postgres for the database
• Node/Express for the application logic
• dotenv from npm for managing environment variables
• db-migrate from npm for migrations
• jsonwebtoken from npm for working with JWTs
• jasmine from npm for testing

Structure

migrations all database migrations used to create data-base schema.

src/ all source code, which contains.

• models for all function models used for database quiries.
• handlers model handlers that recieves the requests and send respones as well as status codes.
• routes the configuration for all routes.
• middleware authentication middleware.
• tests all test suits.
• server.ts main server configuration.
• database.ts database configuration.

installation

yarn or npm install to install required packages.

yarn start or npm run start will run nodemon and start the server and the database on the ports defined in environment variables.

Migrations

Start by creating two data-bases, a data-base for testing and another for development.

psql -U username
# Enter Password
CREATE DATABASE databaseName;
CREATE DATABASE testDatabaseName;

Then run db-migrate up to create the schema.

Testing

yarn test or npm run test