nodejs-server-exercise

EV Onboarding Exercise

Requirements

• Docker desktop
• nvm (for local development - optional)
• Node v14.x or later for local development - optional)
• npm for local development - optional)

How to run

• In your terminal, checkout this repo by running git clone git@github.com:ev-rvs/nodejs-server-exercise.git.
• Then go into the project's docroot by running cd nodejs-server-exercise.
• Copy env.example as .env and update .env file with postgres initialization variables. Whichever you wish to set them to.
• Go to http:localhost:3003/and you should see JSON response { "message": "I'm healthy" }, as a HTTP status code of 200.
• There are 2 addtional endpoints:
  • http:localhost:3003/ping records this event and responds with { "message": "PONG" }, as a HTTP status code of 200.
  • http:localhost:3003/pong responds with { "message": "PONG", "pingCount": X }, as a HTTP status code of 200.

Optional commands

• If you've run this project before or are updating it with the latest changes, you may want to purge the old volumes with the command: docker volumes prune (optional)
• Also if you have built this project before you may want to take down the existing containers by running docker-compose down
• Then if you wish to run test containers, you can run docker-compose -f test-docker-compose.yml up or if you want to continue with development on the project, you can use this as your test driven development containers.
• To restart the docker-compose group, you should run docker-compose down -v && docker-compose up --build optionally with -d as a daemon or without for running logs to container.