TFL Notification Server

This repo is a work in progress.

This is a microservice for sending push notifications to users about Transport for London station updates. It works in conjunction with the React Native TFL Notifications application for notification registration.

Infrastructure Requirements

• MongoDB - Storage for user tokens and stations
• Redis - Queue management for updating station status and sending push notifications.

Dependencies

This project is built using

• Node.js version 8.9+
• Micro - A microservice framework
• Bull - Redis based queue management
• Expo Server SDK - Server side library for working with Expo

Local Setup

These instructions require Docker and will deploy a local instance of MongoDB, Redis, and the Application Server.

The Docker compose file can be found under dev/docker-compose.yml

git clone https://github.com/beauallison/tfl-notification-server

cd tfl-notification-server

npm install

npm run docker