Community Server

Community-server is the server module for a forum application, also known as community, which connects people around a discussion topic to help each other. The client can be found here

Environment Variables

To customize this project, you may add the following environment variables to your .env file in development environment

Variable	Default	Description
PORT	"3000"	Server's port
SENTRY_DNS	undefined	Sentry API Key to monitoring the app
APOLLO_KEY	undefined	Apollo API Key to track GraphQL schema
APOLLO_GRAPH_ID	undefined	Apollo Graph ID
APOLLO_GRAPH_VARIANT	undefined	Apollo Graph variant name. Usually an environment
APOLLO_SCHEMA_REPORTING	undefined	Indicates whether to push graphql schema to Apollo
LOG_LEVEL	"info"	Log level can give you more information
NO_LOG	false	For security reasons you can disable logger
DATABASE_URI	undefined	MongoDB URI to be connected
DEBUG	undefined	Debug the app

Run Locally

Requirements:

• MongoDB
• node 16

Clone the project

  git clone https://github.com/pherval/community-server

Go to the project directory

  cd community-server

Install dependencies

  npm install

Before starting make sure MongoDB is running and proper set or in /.env has DATABASE_URI environment variable

Start the server

Build the app

  npm run build

then start it

  npm run start

Start in dev mode

  npm run dev

Start using Docker

• write script
• write documentation

Running Tests

To run tests, run the following command

  npm run test

Tech Stack

notable techs used:

• Node
• Express.js
• ApolloGraphQL

Authors

• @pherval

Contributing

• write contributing.md guide

Contributions are always welcome!

See contributing.md for ways to get started.

Please adhere to this project's code of conduct.

License

MIT