This is an Express middleware server connecting the greenhouse frontend with the greenhouse backend .
It is hosted on Google Cloud and it simply forwards requests to the "proper" API that the Cloud team created.
It was created for several reasons, namely
- App hosted on github pages cannot make HTTP requests because it's hosted on HTTPS and making mixed content connections is insecure.
- Creating an Express app and hosting it on Google Cloud as a proof of concept and for PBL (Problem Based Learning)
- It was impossible to obtain an SSL certificate and domain in time