Allegiance API

An Express + Node.js API for Allegiance

Background
Deploy
Getting Started
Database
API
- Authentication
- Resources
Maintainers
License

Background

People want to support their favorite teams, talk about sports, and interact with other fans yet conversations are siloed across different channels. It's difficult to find fans and build connections both in person and online. Standard social networks lack features built for the needs of sports fans. We aim to build an app that will allow sports fans to connect with each other through groups and local engagement with other fans that are located nearby.

Deploy

This project is deployed using Heroku. Please find Heroku documentation here.

Getting Started

Before running the server locally, it is recommended that the user reads the documentation embedded within this readme about the database and the api resources.

Clone this repository
npm install to install all required dependencies (note PostgreSQL must be setup for all actions from this point on)
npx knex migrate:latest to create tables in the development environment
npx knex seed:run to populate the database with seed data
npm run server to start the server locally

The technologies selected (Express, Knex, Node) were chosen for the vibrant documentation, large base of developer users, and established package ecosystems present for each of the techs.

Database and Data Model

See link to diagram of the database model here. This project uses PostgreSQL in both development and production environments. Find documentation for PostgreSQL here. Note that the user will need to setup environment variables as required by Knex and PostgreSQL.

Sample variables:
DB_LOCAL=allegiance
DB_LOCAL_USER=postgres
DB_LOCAL_PASSWORD=password

DB_TEST=test
DB_TEST_USER=postgres
DB_TEST_PASSWORD=password

API

Authentication

Allegiance uses Auth0 for its authentication and API call processes. Please find Auth0 documentation here, along with the step by step tutorial used in this project here.