ElixirBackendSample

Sample project to be used going forward as a baseline API for quick POC's and other projects that involve rapid prototyping. Designed to be forked so that business logic can be immediately written into the codebase with the boilerplate complete. Could also serve as a hackathon boilerplate.

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TODO:

• Cron Jobs
  • Welcome email on signup?
• add logging
• email validation
• unit test mock database populated on run time
• model changesets for data validation

Features include:

• Elixir functional programming language
• Phoenix web server and framework
• Absinthe GraphQL library
• Ecto + Postgrex for data models, migrations, and seeds
• Guardian user token creation and validation through authorization header in api requests
• Password hashing into database via ComeOnIn + BCrypt
• Bamboo for password recovery emails
• Unit testing + test driven development ready
• Dockerfile to create a portable deployment container
• AWS deployment with Elastic Beanstalk, push button deployment from command line and CI ready
• Distillery to create standalone deployables for use with other deployment strategies
• Postgres jsonb document store capabilities on user as a "client store"

Up and running

• Install dependencies with mix deps.get
• Create and migrate your database with mix ecto.drop && mix ecto.create && mix ecto.migrate
• Install Node.js dependencies with cd assets && npm install
• Start Phoenix endpoint with mix phx.server
• GraphQL listings at http://localhost:4000/api/graphiql
• Unit tests with MIX_ENV=test mix test

To deploy:

1. Configure prod.secret.exs with database, smtp, and secret key (mix guardian.gen.secret).
2. Install AWS EB CLI instructions
3. cd into project directy and run eb create
4. Run eb deploy to deploy changes to the server