ethanwc / chatee-api

Chatee API built with express and typescript.

Description

This API supports the react native application chatee.

Documentation

View the API documentation here.

Features

Authentication:

• jwt authentication

Session Storage:

• MongoDB
• Redis

Integration testing

• mocha
• chai
• supertest

Requirements

• node >= 10
• npm >= 6
• mongodb >= 3.0
• typescript >= 3.0

Running the API

Development

To start the application in development mode, run:

npm install -g nodemon
npm install -g ts-node
npm install -g typescript
npm install

Start the application in dev env:

nodemon

Start the application in production env:

Install ts pm2 and typescript compiler:

npm install -g pm2
pm2 install typescript

example start with scale on 2 core:

pm2 start ./src/index.ts -i 2 --no-daemon

Express server listening on http://localhost:3000/, in development mode

Testing

To run integration tests:

npm test

Set up environment

In root folder you can find .env. You can use this config or change it for your purposes. If you want to add some new variables, you also need to add them to interface and config object (Look src/config/index.ts)

To use this generator as OAuth2.0 server you should implement client side, that will be handle your redirectUris and make requests to /auth/token/ route. Read more about OAuth2.0

Swagger

npm install -g swagger-jsdoc
swagger-jsdoc -d swaggerDef.js -o swagger.json