README.md

Server backend for The Girl Code

Dev setup:

1. Install

• MongoDB Community Edition: https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/administration/install-community/
• NodeJS: https://nodejs.org
• Python: https://python.org

2. Clone this repository

    git clone https://github.com/thegirlcode/backend.git
   

3. Install required packages

    cd backend
   
    npm install
   
    npm install -g nodemon
   

4. Create keyfile as auth/keys.js:

    module.exports = {
    	googleID: 'googleSignInID',
    	googleSecret: 'googleSignInSecret',
    	facebookID: 'facebookSignInID',
    	facebookSecret: 'facebookSignInSecret'
    };
   

5. Start server

In one Terminal, open and leave running:

    mkdir ~/mongo
    mongod --dbpath ~/mongo

In another Terminal:

    nodemon bin/www

6. Site will be at localhost:62442

Note: In order for Facebook and Google login to work on localhost, you will need to do the following:

1. Create a self-signed SSL certificate: https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert

2. Install and setup nginx: https://nginx.org

3. Use nginx to serve the self-signed certificate: https://stackoverflow.com/a/25857318

Or any other method of serving localhost:3000 as https://localhost. Site will be live at latter URL.

Prod setup:

1. Install

• MongoDB Community Edition: https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/administration/install-community/
• NodeJS: https://nodejs.org
• Python: https://python.org
• Firejail: https://firejail.wordpress.com

2. Clone this repository

    git clone https://github.com/thegirlcode/backend.git
   

3. Install required packages

    cd backend
   
    npm install
   
    npm install -g forever
   

4. Create keyfile as auth/keys.js:

    module.exports = {
      googleID: 'googleSignInID',
      googleSecret: 'googleSignInSecret',
      facebookID: 'facebookSignInID',
      facebookSecret: 'facebookSignInSecret'
    };
   

5. Start server

Start Mongo as system service: https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-ubuntu/#run-mongodb-community-edition

Start forever.js server

    sudo NODE_ENV=production forever start bin/www

6. Site will be at localhost:3000. Must use nginx and certbot to create an SSL certificate and serve site over https://domain as Google and Facebook login will not work without it.