gr-resq-node-backend

Local Development

With Docker

Prerequisites:

• Local install of Docker.
• Local install of the aws-cli

Note, if using Windows, this has only been tested in WSL environments.

1. Start local dynamodb container
   docker run -p 8000:8000 amazon/dynamodb-local
2. Copy Environment default environment variable assignments to .env-development:
   cp .env.template ./.env.development
3. Initialze database:
   node utils/setupDb.js
   (you may want to list tables with aws cli at this point*)
   Will be useful to develop tests that can load user data.
4. Start node app: node app.js

*Listing local dynamodb tables with aws cli
aws dynamodb list-tables --endpoint-url http://localhost:8000