announcements-backend

Backend for announcements.

Getting Started

1. Duplicate the .envtemplate file and rename it to .env. Set NODE_ENV to dev, then set DEV_URI to mongodb://localhost:27017/announcements-dev.

• For AppDev members, the development .env file is pinned in the #pod-announcements channel.
• Note that in order to run the database locally, you will need to have MongoDB installed.

2. Run yarn to install dependencies.
3. Start the development server by running yarn dev. To run the production build instead, use yarn build followed by yarn start.

Testing

Jest

1. Make sure dependencies are installed with yarn.
2. To run the test suite, use yarn test.

Postman

1. To generate an auth token, navigate to the OAuth 2.0 Playground.
2. Go to settings in the top right, select Use your own OAuth credentials and pass in the Client ID and secret. These are pinned in the #announcements-dev channel.
3. For the scope, select Google OAuth2 API v2, check all 3 options, then click on Authorize APIs.
4. If prompted to log in, choose an account that you want to authenticate.
5. Click Exchange authorization code for tokens.
6. In the response body, copy the id_token field and use that as a Bearer token.

Styling

• If using VSCode, install the Prettier extension and configure your settings to use it.