Skimpex-Backend

backend of the Skimpex-App
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About The Project

This is the backend of the Skimpex-App. It functions as authentication/authorization and database-server.

TO-DO

• Stop the express-middleware from throwing 'malformed-jwt' error for not logged in users. Or prevent this problem otherwise.

Technologies

Setup - Node.js, npm and git required

STEP 0. Download and install the code

• Clone the repo

  git clone https://github.com/faafaa123/Skimpex-Backend.git

• Install the dependencies

  npm install

STEP 1. Install external npm-dependencies

• TypeScript-Development-Tool

  npm install -g ts-node-dev

  
  
  

STEP 2. Setup MongoDB

Install MongoDB-Community-Edition and MongoDB-Compass. Obtain your MONGODB_CONNECTION_STRING from MongoDB-Compass and place it in the .env-file.

Or sign-up to MongoDB-Cloud and create a free cluster. In this case you use the MONGODB_CONNECTION_STRING from their cloud-deployment.

STEP 3. Start the backend

• Command

  ts-node-dev bin/www.ts

License

Distributed under the GNU GPLv3 License. See LICENSE.txt for more information.