siristechnology / nepaltoday-podcast-api

Backend Api for NepalToday Podcast app

NepalToday-Podcast-Api

A graphql based api endpoint for NepalToday Podcast mobile app and Admin Dashboard in React It is set to auto-deploy to https://dashboard.heroku.com/apps/nepaltoday-podcast-api-qa

GraphQL

Prerequisites

• MongoDB
• Node 14+

Steps to run

1. yarn --to install npm modules
2. Create .env file as per .env.sample file. Get actual values from Heroku env if you need to.
3. Don't checkin .env file
4. yarn dev --to start api-server and worker in development mode
5. yarn start --to start api-server and worker in prod mode
6. jest --runInBand -t 'some test description' -- it will run tests with some test description in it description
7. yarn lint --to show linting errors. Add [--fix] to auto fix errors.

Key points

1. Uses mongoose as ORM for mongodb
2. Mongoose schema at /src/db-service/mongooseSchema.js

Most basic MongoDB commands (terminal)

• show dbs --to show all dbs
• use nepaltodaydb --to switch to nepaltodaydb
• show collections --to show all collections/tables
• db.articles.find() --to show all articles in the collection
• db.articles.find({title: 'new title'}) --to show article/articles with title = 'new title'
• db.articles.find({}, {title: 1}) --to show title field of all articles (no criteria)
• db.articles.remove({}) --to remove all articles documents
• db.articles.remove({title: 'new title'}) --to remove all articles with title = 'new title'
• db.articles.update({_id:{$exists:true}}, { $set: {createdDate: '2019-01-01'}}, {multi: true}) --to update multiple articles with createdDate = '2019-01-01'
• db.articles.find().sort({_id: -1}).limit(10) -- to display latest articles (i.e order by descending and take 10 records)

Some helpful commands

1. Run kill-port 4000 to kill process in port 4000. kill-port is a npm module