Project Green Zone Server

Requirments

• Nodejs v10.16.0
• MongoDB 4.2 Community Edition

Getting started

• Run npm install to install dependancies
• Install nodemon globaly npm install -g nodemon
• Add your mongodb endpont to config/database.js file

  •    module.exports = {
         database: 'mongodb://localhost:PORT/DATABASE_NAME'
       }
    

• Run the server using nodemon nodemon server.js or npm start

Technologies used

• express
• mongoDB, mongoose
• socket.io

Routes

• login : simple authentication stategy : username and password (stored with random salt), passes jwt

• users :

• POST users/register : register with username password

• GET users/trackers/:username : trackers registered for user with :username

• trackers

• POST trackers/tack : updated tracker information

• GET trackers/ : emit tracker details to users channel from /webapp_io end-point

• webapp_io : socket.io endpoint to get tacker details in realtime. tracker details are emited when new update arrives from tracker or front end client request for details.