Telford Leisure Services (Backend)

This is the backend for my redesign project of the Telford Leisure Services sign up process. This backend was built with Nest.js which is a Node.js framework, with data stored in a MongoDB Atlas database.

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Demo

Here is a working live demo: https://telford-leisure-services-front.vercel.app/

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Key Features

• Ability for members to create new accounts
• Ability to login to the service
• Ability to give feedback on the service
• Forgotten member number retrieval via email
• Password reset functionality

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How To Use

To clone and run this application, you'll need Git and Node.js (which comes with npm) installed on your computer. From your command line:

# Clone this repository
$ git clone https://github.com/chris-ian-jones/telford-leisure-services-back

# Go into the repository
$ cd telford-leisure-services-back

# Create an .env file
$ touch .env

# Add environment variables to the .env file (see Environment Variables table below)

# Install dependencies
$ npm install

# Run the app
$ npm run start:dev

Note Here is a link to the frontend project which you will also need running locally on your computer: https://github.com/chris-ian-jones/telford-leisure-services-front

Environment Variables

name	default	description
WEBTOKEN_SECRET_KEY		Specifies the secret string used to sign any JWTs - should be at least 32 characters, but the longer the better.
WEBTOKEN_EXPIRATION_TIME	21600	Specifies the amount of seconds before any generated JWTs expires.
DB_URL		In order to connect to MongoDB, you will need a URI string (Uniform Resource Identifier) which is similar to a URL. For the URI string to work, you have to set up authentication for your MongoDB instance, and have created a username and password for read and write access to a MongoDB database.
SENDINBLUE_API_KEY		Specifies the API key for your sendinblue account.

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Built with

• Nest.js - A progressive Node.js framework for building efficient, reliable and scalable server-side applications
• MongoDB Atlas - The multi-cloud application data platform
• Sendinblue - Sendinblue’s API is used as an email router to send out emails

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License

You can check out the full license here

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.