storefront-backend

a Backend API for an E-Commerce Application

Technologies Used

Your application must make use of the following libraries:

• Postgres for the database
• Node/Express for the application logic
• dotenv from npm for managing environment variables
• db-migrate from npm for migrations
• jsonwebtoken from npm for working with JWTs
• jasmine from npm for testing

Steps to Setup the Project

1- Packages Installation

npm install

2- Create .env file and put the following in it:

PGHOST=localhost
PGDATABASE=##
PG_TEST_DATABASE=##
PGUSER=postgres
PGPASSWORD=##
BCRYPT_PASSWORD=##
SALT_ROUNDS=10
JWT_SECRET=##
API_PORT=3000
DATABASE_PORT=5432
ENV=dev

add your own database name, postgres password, bcrypt passowrd and jwt secret.

3- Database Installation : Run this command

db-migrate up

4- Start the API Server

npm start