drewromanyk / voting-backend

Voting Backend

Backend for the Voting Information App

Installation

Mac

1. Get Docker installed
2. Switch postgres/Dockerfile.template to postgres/Dockerfile & alter the secrets for your project
3. Switch config.template.js to config.js & alter the secrets for your project
   • Ask developer for or make your own password hash for first user in postgres/schema.sql
4. npm run schema:test
5. Run docker-compose up on your terminal for it to build and run, along with auto-magically re-building when you change the code

Windows

Sorry that Windows is not UNIX, so we cant do docker :(

1. https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp#on-windows ( install the visual studio build tools with c++ & also install python2.7 )
2. Switch postgres/Dockerfile.template to postgres/Dockerfile & alter the secrets for your project
3. Switch config.template.js to config.js & alter the secrets for your project
   • Ask developer for or make your own password hash for first user in postgres/schema.sql
4. npm run schema:test & run postgres/schema.sql into your database ( Dont commit secrets to schema.sql! )
5. install postgres https://www.postgresql.org/download/
6. add postgres as a localhost host in C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
7. npm install
8. npm run start:dev

TODO:

API for Frontend

I essentially need to start building out the frontend, in order to find out what I need for the API calls, as the structure is now built for all of the API calls.

Performance

I might not be using promises properly for the db queries or just nodejs code in general.

Security

• Keep using JWT or something more traditional for auth
• Security Questions & 2Factor
• Forget Password