Installation

$ yarn install

Run the app locally

$ yarn dev

Run the app in production

$ yarn start

Middleware

Middleware functions are functions that have access to the request object (req), the response object (res), and the next middleware function in the application’s request-response cycle.

Middleware can be at the application level or at the router level.

Database

We are using Firebase cloud fire store for our database.

To setup a connection to the database:

1. Have a look in your project slack channel for a pinned JSON file called firebase-credentials.json.
2. Create a firebase-credentals.json file in the root directory of this repository and copy the contents from the file in the slack channel
3. Run yarn dev and if everything is running smoothly you should see no errors

To query the database you will need to require the db instance that is exported from index.js. You can use the firebase docs and have a look under the node.js tab for examples.

Testing

Using jest and supertest for API testing.

Commit messages

In order to keep a clean git history merges should always be squashed with a consistent commit message style.