Storefront Backend Project

Introduction

Ecommerce store backend api built using NodeJS.
Unit Tests using Jasmine

Running the project

1. Run yarn in the project directory
2. Create a .env file in the project with the format

POSTGRES_HOST=127.0.0.1
POSTGRES_DB=shopping_api_dev
POSTGRES_TEST_DB=shopping_api_test
POSTGRES_USER=pg_user
POSTGRES_PASSWORD=pg_password
BCRYPT_PASSWORD=verysecrettoken
SALT_ROUNDS=10
ENV=dev

3. Make sure dev and test postgres dbs exist in your installation of PostgreSQL and your db username and password match in the .env file above.
4. The api runs on port 3000 while the database runs on the default postgres port 5432
5. Simply run yarn watch or alternatively
   yarn build followed by yarn start
   to run the server

Running tests

1. Follow step 1 to step 3 above.
2. Run yarn test in the dir to run tests.