The API code was based off the Express generator. To run it on your local machine,
cd api
npm install
DEBUG='api:server' npm start
On Windows, the corresponding command is,
set DEBUG=api:server & npm start
For more information on debugging, see the debug module. Other values for DEBUG to try include:
DEBUG='*' npm start
DEBUG='api:*' npm start
To format, lint, and test,
npm test
To watch the source for changes and run the tests automatically,
# npm install -g gulp
gulp
See the Docker site for an introduction if you are not familiar with it.
To build a Docker image suitable for deployment, run ./build.sh,
which is based off the pattern described in geowa4/docker-node-runtime.
Using this strategy, the resulting image is ~10MB smaller.
Also, the full npm install can happen in Docker so, technically, you do not need Node installed on your local machine.