pupilfirst / wd301-api

API used in WD301 course.

wd301-api

API server for WD301

steps to run locally

npm install
npm start

Running in production

• Install pm2

npm install pm2 -g

• Add environment variables to .env file (Refer .env.sample file)

DATABASE_URL="postgres://postgres:postgres@localhost:5432/wd301_db"
PORT=8081
JWT_SECRET="your_jwt_secret"
SALT_ROUNDS=10

• Make sure the database exists

cd wd301-api
NODE_ENV=production npx sequelize-cli db:create

• Run the application

cd wd301-api
NODE_ENV=production pm2 start "npx sequelize-cli db:migrate && npm start" --name wd301-api

• Stopping the application

pm2 stop wd301-api

• You can get the logs for the application by running

pm2 logs

HTTPS support

You can use Nginx or any other reverse proxy to terminate any SSL connections.