Activate logging for backend service using winston for observability

Make healthcheck work

Author: alexrecuenco

README.md

@@ -9,13 +9,13 @@ In order do as follows
 1. Copy `dbpass.txt.example` to `dbpass.txt` and set a password
 2. Copy `password-file.txt.example` to `password-file.txt` and set the same password
 
+Alternatively, set `POSTGRES_HOST_AUTH_METHOD=trust` and pass it to docker compose (No authenthication, this is done on debug mode)
 
 ### Local
 
 1. Install **node 22**
 2. Run `npm install`
 
-
 ## Local Development
 
 ### Build
@@ -32,13 +32,13 @@ npm run build -ws
 npm run test -ws
 ```
 
-### Prepare database
+### Prepare database for local development
 
 ```bash
 # at a separate terminal run this and keep running
 docker compose -f compose.yaml -f compose.debug.yaml up db
 # In a separate terminal, (I believe postgresql does this automatically)
-npm run db:prepare -w backend
+# npm run db:prepare -w backend
 ```
 
 ### Launch

compose.debug.yaml

@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 # TODO: Make this auto-reloadable and expose debug ports to the outside world
 services:
   frontend: {}
-  backend: {}
+  backend:
+    ports:
+      # Avoid conflicts with local development
+      - 3003:3000
   db:
     environment:
       POSTGRES_HOST_AUTH_METHOD: trust

compose.yaml

@@ -32,22 +32,23 @@ services:
       PGUSER: postgres
       PGPORT: 5432
       PGDATABASE: taskdb
-    ports:
-      - 3000:3000
     depends_on:
       db:
         condition: service_healthy
     secrets:
       - db-password
     healthcheck:
       test:
-        # node
-        [
-          'CMD',
-          'wget --no-verbose --server-response --tries=1
-          --spider  http://localhost:3000/v1/health',
-        ]
+          - CMD
+          - /usr/bin/wget
+          - --no-verbose
+          - --server-response
+          - --tries=1
+          - --spider
+          - http://localhost:3000/health
       interval: 5s
+      start_interval: 1s
+      start_period: 1s
       timeout: 1s
       retries: 3
   db:
@@ -62,14 +63,15 @@ services:
     environment:
       POSTGRES_DB: taskdb
       POSTGRES_PASSWORD_FILE: /run/secrets/db-password
+      POSTGRES_HOST_AUTH_METHOD: $POSTGRES_HOST_AUTH_METHOD
     expose:
       - 5432
-    ports:
-      - 5432:5432
 
     healthcheck:
       test: ['CMD', 'pg_isready']
       interval: 5s
+      start_interval: 1s
+      start_period: 1s
       timeout: 1s
       retries: 3