on4r / mmd-api

AdonisJS Backend for My Movie DB

My Movie DB [ Backend ]

This is the AdonisJs API Backend for My Movie DB.

System Requirements

The only dependencies of the framework are Node.js and npm.
Ensure your versions of those tools match the following criteria:

• Node.js >= 8.0.0
• npm >= 3.0.0
• git

Additional Requirements

You need an API Key from The Movie Database.

AdonisJs Cli

Command line tool to help you manage the project.
Install it globally via npm like so:

npm i -g @adonisjs/cli

Setup

• Run npm install to install all dependencies
• Make a copy of .env.example rename it to .env
• Run adonis key:generate to generate the secret key
• Run adonis migration:run to setup the database
• Run adonis serve --dev to run the application

Production

What you want will be something like this:

• configured htaccess to map an outside route to localhost:port where your node service is running.
• some kind of service to keep your server node server.js running after system reboot and be able to start/stop it.
• maybe setup a different kind of database and
• run the migrations node ace migration:run.