Storage service for hostify

This is the backend for upload and storage packages in hostify.

Requirements

• heroku account
• MongoDB Atlas account

Preparing

1. Create a cluster in MongoDB Atlas. An M0 group is sufficient in most cases.
2. Create a database user in Atlas. They must have the database read and write permission.
3. Get the connection string from the database and insert the username and password of the created one. It should look something like this: mongodb+srv://username:[email protected]@cluster0.ssezy.mongodb.net/hostifypackagedb?retryWrites=true&w=majority.
4. Save this connection string in heroku Config Vars with name MONGODB_URI and value key MongoURI.
5. create an environment variable called SECRET_JWT and add your JWT token

Deploy

1. Install heroku CLI.
2. Sign in to heroku and created your dyno cluster

then run the command

git push heroku master

note: remember to have the aforementioned environment variables already configured before deploy the application

Development

To run the backend locally, make sure you have node js and mongoDB compass installed. Then run:

npm run dev