Provides the Marion Tech API and backing processes for message dispatch and response capture.
Make sure nodejs is installed, along with mongodb and redis. Both mongo and redis should be running. This may all be easily installed with homebrew.
Foreman (installed with the Heroku toolbelt) must also be installed.
For testing, mocha must be installed.
npm install # installs packages
make # starts the application server
make test # starts test server and runs tests
In order for the application to start, an .env file must be created in the project's root directory. This allows foreman to automatically set environment variables for the application to use, similar to the ones it will have access to in a production environment.
An example .env (should work as-is) can be found below. It's similar to what's in .test_env; just make sure the environments, ports, and databases are different at least. (TODO: remove .test_env from the repo, add to this documentation.)
MONGO_URL="mongodb://localhost/marionapidev"
PORT=5000
ENVIRONMENT=DEVELOPMENT
REDIS_URL=redis://localhost:6379
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