The dialogikTV API

Based on Node.js with Express.js and a sequelized MySQL database, this API servers as the main data provider for the dialogikTV frontend webapplication.

Develop and contribute

• Clone the repository.
• Create .env File (see .env.template).
• Install node dependencies with npm install.
• node app.js (or npm start to run with nodemon) to run script locally.
• git add, git commit and git push to contribute (and always remember to git pull before starting the day).

Deploy to Heroku

tbd

FAQ

Known problems when developing on Windows

• How to get consistent lowercase table names with XAMPP on Windows

How to migrate with .env variables in config/sequelize.js

Use the dotenv-cli package:

npx dotenv -e .env sequelize db:migrate