Attempt to add some structure to a basic express API through the introduction of stronger typecasting. Built-in typescript, transpiled down to es5, ran through pm2 for container support.
To get up and running start by clone this project and open with your editor of choice. In the root of the project create a .env file for storing environment variables and populate it with the following.
PORT=8000
DB_URI=mongodb://localhost:27017/express-ts
GOOGLECLIENT=YOUR-GOOGLE-API-ID
GOOGLESECRET=YOUR-GOOGLE-API-SECRET
SPOTIFYCLIENT=YOUR-SPOTIFY-API-ID
SPOTIFYSECRET=YOUR-SPOTIFY-API-SECRETNow you will need to install Docker to host your local instance of MongoDB. Once installed, open up a terminal and install MongoDB with the following command.
docker pull mongoOnce MongoDB is installed you can then start it by running
docker run -p 27017:27017 mongoThis will create a container running your MongoDB database on localhost:27017.
Going back to your editor, open a terminal at the project root directory and run npm install followed by npm run dev. This will start the app on localhost:8000 and you'll be ready to go! 🚀