Webhooks Microservice

This repository contains source code for Webhooks microservice using Moleculer and a backend using Express and MongoDB (with mongoose ODM) that lets you create users (with or without admin privilages on new user), login and lets admin to create, read, update and delete webhooks service and allows every user to trigger webhooks that sends their IP and UNIX Timestamp in post request body.

Index

• Requirements
• Installation
• Configuration
• Routes

Getting Started

This reposetory only contains backend (with express) with webhooks service (with molecular) so using postman will he helpful for managing resuests and responses from backend.

Requirements

This module requires the following modules:

• Node.js
• Yarn
• Git

Installation

To clone the backend and serve it locally, where MY-WEBHOOKS-MICROSERVICES is the name of your new repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/DiabolusGX/webhooks-microservice.git MY-WEBHOOKS-MICROSERVICES
$ cd MY-WEBHOOKS-MICROSERVICES

This will take you to the clonned project directory and ready to configure the project.

Configuration

• You have to add .env in root directory of the project where you can store all secret keys (like MONGO_URI in our case)

  PORT=3000
  SESSION_SECRET=myBigSecretIsHere
  MONGO_URI=mongodb://[username:password@]host1[:port1][,...hostN[:portN]][/[defaultauthdb][?options]]

  PORT is set to 3000 by default but you MUST enter valid MONGO_URI (either mongo atlas cluster or localhost) for application to start and work properly.

  If the username or password includes the : / ? # [ ] @ characters, those characters must be converted using percent encoding.

• After you've setup enviornment variables, you can continue with installing dependencies :

  • Run to install all rependencies.

    yarn install

  • Run to start the development server that'll run on PORT mentioned in .env file (or 3000 be default).

    yarn start

  • OR you an alternatively use yarn serve that'll install dependencies and run the server.

• If you're planning to deploy the backend, add

  NODE_ENV=production

  to command OR in .env file, that'll add extra securty option and will only accept requests from secure sockets (https).

Routes

Here is list of routes for reference and usability :

User

User routes has base user/ path like login path will be http://localhost:3000/user/login with POST method containing credentials (username, password) in JSON format in request body.

Route	Method	Data in	Requirement	Format
/signup	POST	JSON Body	-	{ username, password, isAdmin (Boolean) }
/login	POST	JSON Body	-	{ username, password }
/logout	POST	-	-	-
/update	PATCH	JSON Body	admin	{ username, newPassword, newIsAdmin }
/delete	DELETE	JSON BODY	admin	{ username }

Webhook

Similar to user routes, it has /webhook as base path and logged in user has to be admin to generate, list, update and delete webhook.

Route	Method	Data in	Requirement	Format
/register	POST	Query	admin	/webhook/register?targetUrl=<url>
/list	GET	-	admin	/webhook/list
/update	PATCH	Query	admin	webhook/update?id=<webhookId>&targetUrl=<newUrl>
/delete	DELETE	Query	admin	webhook/delete?id=<webhookId>

Trigger Webhok

Separate route /ip that anyone can trigger and will send visiting user's ipAddress and UNIX_TIMESTAMP in HTTP POST requerst body in JSON format.

Route	Method	Data in	Requirement	Format
/ip	POST	-	-	/ip

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Additional help

Please reachout to me anytime on discord or by mail 🙏