anuragmishra1 / hacker-news-backend

Hacker News Backend Server

To build the project follow below steps:

• Install NodeJS, if not installed (Require Node version >= 8.0.0)

  $ wget -qO- https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | bash - $ sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

• Install npm, if not installed (Require NPM version >= 5.0.0)

  $ sudo apt-get install npm $ sudo npm install -g yarn

• Install mongodb, if not installed

  Install mongo from here

• To build the application

  $ yarn $ npm install -g pm2

• To run the application with customized ENV variable

  $ HOST=localhost PORT=3000 yarn start

• To run the application with default settings

  $ yarn start

• Start with PM2

  $ pm2 start ./server.js --start --name 'hacker-news-backend'

Open API explorer here: http://localhost:3000/explorer