Know Africa

An information and fact-based web application about Africa. Africa isn't a country. Africa is a continent with 54 independent countries.

• For the Features, go here: https://github.com/devcareer/code-jammers-backend/wiki/Backend-sample-test-APIs
• For the Heroku hosted APIs, go here: https://know-africa.herokuapp.com
• For the Pivotal tracker board(project management), go here: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/n/projects/2463429
• For GitHub kanban board, go here: https://github.com/devcareer/code-jammers-backend/projects/1
• For our static website, go here: https://devcareer.github.io/code-jammers-backend/docs/
• For our swagger docs, go here: https://know-africa.herokuapp.com/api/v1/docs

The technologies used in creating this project are:

JavaScript, Node.js, ExpressJs, Sequelize ORM, PostgreSQL, Git, Github Actions, Code Climate, Coveralls, Pivotal Tracker, Docker, Swagger

🚀 How to get started

• Make sure to have Git and Node.js installed on your computer
• You can use this link to clone the project: https://github.com/devcareer/code-jammers-backend.git
• cd into the project and run npm install
• create a .env file and the contents in the sample file to it.
• Run npm run start-dev to start the server and npm test to run the test suites

Note: To test the APIs using Heroku, use the above Heroku Link.

Then to test it through a container(docker), follow the following steps:

• Make sure to have Git and Node.js installed on your computer
• You can use this link to clone the project: https://github.com/devcareer/code-jammers-backend.git
• cd into the project and run npm install
• create a .env file and the contents in the sample file to it.
• Run docker-compose up
• Run docker-compose run web npm run migration
• Run docker-compose run web npm run seeder
• To run tests docker-compose run web npm run test
• To shut down the container docker-compose down

Sample .env file format

DATABASE_URL = postgres://<username>:<password>@localhost:5432/<prod-db>
DEV_DATABASE_URL = postgres://<username>:<password>@localhost:5432/<dev-db>
TEST_DATABASE_URL = postgres://<username>:<password>@localhost:5432/<test-db>
JWT_KEY = secret
SENDGRID_API_KEY= <sg-api-key>
SENDGRID_EMAIL = <sg-email>
NODE_ENV = development
GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID = 732603686075-gjth9b4tsh2qba48eh7mn7plcsjbfn4v.apps.googleusercontent.com
GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET = ledPWdG3zGMCMzQ7wQvSvXyg
GOOGLE_CALLBACK_URL_SIGNIN = http://localhost:3000/auth/google/signin
GOOGLE_CALLBACK_URL_SIGNUP = http://localhost:3000/auth/google/signup
COOKIE_KEY = cookieKey

Software Engineers / Mentees

• Fiyin Akinsiku
• Ufuoma Ogodo
• Godspower Uche
• Bernard Namangala
• Donald Agbakoba
• Bislon Zulu
• Augusta Ehihebolo
• Francis Xavier Abonyi
• Oyindamola Abiola

Author & Mentor

• Funmilayo Olaiya.

Acknowledgements

• DevCareer

To Contact Us:

codejammers1@gmail.com

License:

This project is available under the MIT license.