This is back-end API for e-commerce in Team emma

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Table of Content

• Table of Content
• Project information
• Setup
  • Technologies used
  • Getting Started
    • Cloning and move into the cloned repo
    • Installing the packages
      • Check installation errors
    • .env file
  • Running the app
• Testing
  • Running the tests
  • Writing the tests
• Folder structure
• Contributing

Project information

The backend API for an e-commerce app

Setup

You can clone this repo and start to add/change some features

Technologies used

• Languages
  • TypeScript
• Package Manager
  • npm
• Software
  • NodeJs
  • PostgreSQL
  • Text Editor or IDE
• Testing
  • jest
  • supertest
• API Documentation
  • Swagger Documentation
• Stack to use PERN: PostgreSQL ExpressJS ReactJS NodeJS

Getting Started

Cloning and move into the cloned repo

git clone https://github.com/atlp-rwanda/e-comm-team-emma25-bn.git e-commerce-backend

cd e-commerce-backend

Installing the packages

npm install

Check installation errors

run npm list if you find UNMET or other package related errors re-install npm i

.env file

Before running the app you need to create .env file to write environment variables

touch .env

Required Environment Variables

PORT = 
JWT_SECRET = 
DBLINK = 
TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN = 
TWILIO_SERVICE_SID = 
TWILIO_PHONE_NUMBER = 
TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID = 

CLIENT_ID=
CLIENT_SECRET=
CallBackURL=

USER=
NODEMAILER_CLIENT_ID=
MODEMAILER_CLIENT_SECRET=
MAILER_REFRESH_ACCESSTOKEN=
MAILER_ACCESS_TOKEN=

FAKE_TOKEN = 
SELLER_TOKEN = 

DBLINK is an online postgresql DB you can put your own

Running the app

npm start

or

npm run dev

Testing

Running the tests

To run the tests you have to run:

npm run test

Writing the tests

To write the test for your features you need to place your test files in the __tests__ directory in your working directory
Your tests files should be named like filename.test.ts

Folder structure

📦src 
 ┣ 📂config         # Configuration files like auth configs
 ┣ 📂controllers    # All Controller classes/functions.
 ┣ 📂db             # Includes all database data/configs/models/migrations ...
 ┃ ┣ 📂migrations       # Migration files
 ┃ ┣ 📂models           # All models
 ┣ 📂docs           # Includes swagger doc configurations
 ┣ 📂helper         # All helpers to be used
 ┣ 📂middlewares    # Application middlewares 
 ┣ 📂models         # Some app models [Soon will be moved into db/models]
 ┣ 📂routes         # All Application routes
 ┣ 📂utils          # App instance file

Contributing

Feel free to create/add a feature or report a bug. You can pull a request here 👉Create a pull request.
Report a bug here 👉Submit issue

🛑⚠ Read Engineering Playbook You can follow these steps in order to contribute on this project:

1. Create a branch git checkout -b prefix-branch-name prefix can be:
   1. ft: feature
   2. bg-fx: bug fix
2. After all your changes (includes documentation) push the source codes
3. Open a pull request
4. Tag at least 2 team members for review and make sure to add a label for the branch status.