ohtuilmo/backend

Installation

Clone and run: npm install

Instructions

How to start frontend, backend and database using docker-compose

Environment variables

In addition to the the usual NODE_ENV:

Variable	Description
PORT	Port number to which the HTTP server will bind.
DATABASE_URI	The PostgreSQL connection string.
SECRET	JWT signing secret key. Change to invalidate all tokens.
EMAIL_ENABLED	Set to true to enable admin's email sending functionality. Connection settings are found in config/index.js.

Deploying to production

Travis automatically builds a new Docker image when new commits are pushed to master. This image is then pushed to DockerHub under ohtuprojektiilmo/ohtuback.

See below for Docker Compose production deployment instructions.

When there are no schema changes

If the models have not changed and there are no migrations to be run, just pull the latest container and restart.

docker-compose pull backend
docker-compose stop backend
docker-compose up -d backend

When there are schema changes and migrations to be run

If there are new migrations to be run, run the migrations before restarting the container.

docker-compose pull backend
docker-compose stop backend
docker-compose run --entrypoint 'npm run db:migrate' backend
docker-compose up -d backend

More docker instructions

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