Meetapp - Backend

Backend made for the MeetApp project.

What is Meetapp?

• It's an app where the users can sign up for free and create Meetups for other users to join and meet.

Where is the frontend?

• You can find the frontend here.

• There is also a mobile version here.

Getting started

You should setup the following software on your machine in order for this backend work.

• Node (I usually prefer installing using nvm)
• Yarn
• Postgres
• MongoDB
• Redis

If you have docker on your machine, you can run the following command to install the databases:

$ docker run --name mongo-meetapp -p 27017:27017 -d -t mongo

$ docker run --name redis-meetapp -p 6379:6379 -d -t redis:alpine

$ docker run --name postgres-meetapp -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=mysecretpassword -d postgres

But why 3 databases?

MongoDB is being used for storing notifications, Redis is for storing the mail queue used by the Queue server. Postgres is the main database, responsible for storing all data used by the server.

Installing Dependencies

Just run yarn.

Initializing the database

After installing the project's dependencies, you have to copy the .env.example file and rename it to .env. Fill in all empty fields with your sensitive data and run the following command in order to create the necessary tables:

$ yarn sequelize db:migrate

Starting the server

$ yarn dev

Starting the Queue server

$ yarn queue

Routes

If you use Insomnia, I left a .json file containing all of the possible API Requests that can be imported into Insomnia.

Error handling with Sentry

You can also integrate with Sentry for handling erros in this project while in production. After you signed up in their website and created a project, you should put the DSN inside de .env file in a SENTRY_DSN variable. Also note that the node environment variable (NODE_ENV) should be set to production in the .env file. If not, the server will handle errors locally.

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This project was made during the Rockeseat's Gostack Bootcamp 8.0 as a challenge in order to get the certification.