My API Template

This template repository allows to create quickly a express server prepared for graphql and with passport local authentication

Running the server

1. Install dependencies

   $ npm i
   

2. Configure DB following this tutorial Configure DB
3. Configure .env file (for example for local development)

   DB_HOST=localhost
   PG_PORT=5432
   PG_DB=$DBNAME
   PG_USER=postgres
   PG_PASSWORD=postgres
   SESSION_SECRET=somesecret
   PORT=3000
   COOKIE_DOMAIN=

4. Run server

   $ npm start

Configure HTTPS

In order to run server over https, it is necessary to include a server.cert and server.key in your root workspace. Automatically the server will run an HTTPS server in env.PORT + 1

These two files can be created with the following script

$ openssl req -nodes -new -x509 -keyout server.key -out server.cert

Running server with Heroku PSQL

1. List heroku apps

$ heroku apps

1. Run script using

$ DATABASE_URL=$heroku config:get -a $APP_NAME DATABASE_URL)