Secure Booking Service - Backend

📁 Folder /src

This section explains the content of the important folder /src.

• /api/*: This folder contains all endpoint handlers of the api. Its structure mirrors the path of the api endpoints to find the concurrent handler more easily.
• /configuration/*: Contains various configuration files which are loaded at the beginning to set up express, the logger or to validate the environment variables.
• /routes/*: This folder contains all routes/endpoints that the backend listens on. These files connect correlating endpoint handlers and their routes. Also these files configure requirements like authentication and authorization.
• /schemas/*: Contains database schema definitions for various collections like users or bookings.

🧑‍💻 Development Setup

This section describes the development setup to run the server application locally. Make sure that you have commit signing active for this repository git config commit.gpgsign true.

⚗️ Prerequisites

We have also set up a .devcontainer. Learn more

• Local MongoDB installation on port 27017 (https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-windows/)
• Node with NPM installed (https://nodejs.org/en/download/)

🔧 Setup .env

Create a /.env file based on ./.env.example

• JWT_SECRET choose a random string
• RP_ID choose localhost
• RP_ORIGIN enter the URL where you open the frontend like http://localhost:8080
• MONGO_ENCRYPTION_KEY use openssl rand -base64 32 to generate a value
• MONGO_SIGNING_KEY use openssl rand -base64 64 to generate a value
• AMADEUS_API_KEY API-key from Amadeus Developer Portal
• AMADEUS_API_SECRET API-Secret from Amadeus Developer Portal

📁 Installing modules

Run npm ci to install all required node modules.

🛫 Start development

Run npm start at the root of the directory.

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