Polls (API)

This is the api for polls-frontend (pollsimply.com)

Technology

• Node.js - Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform, back-end, JavaScript runtime environment
• Nest.js - A progressive Node.js framework
• Digital Ocean - Cloud service to deploy applications
• PM2 - For running the apps on the Digital Ocean droplet

Developing locally

Firstly install all dependencies

npm i

Then run

npm run start

Digital Ocean

This is deployed on digital ocean under the domain api.pollsimply.com.

Accessing the server from you machine

You will need to have a ssh key set up and have an authenticated user with admin privileges set up on the server. You can find information to set that up here

1. ssh into the server with this command:

ssh YOUR_USERNAME@209.97.133.120

2. once in open the root console

sudo -i

3. cd into the root directory

cd /root

Show running apps

pm2 status

This will display the running applications on the server

Displaying logs

Make sure you are in the root dir and run this command:

pm2 logs

Infomation

• Env files can be found in 1password