ExtremeResults-Server

The backend Server with RESTful API's for ExtremeResults

This server is used by the Extreme Results Web App, for which the code can be found here: https://github.com/bjaanes/ExtremeResults-WebApp

Technology

The server is build using Node.js and Express and exposes a set of API's that can be found in the API.md file.

Installation

Requirements:

• Node.js with npm

Setup

Install dependencies for building:

npm install

Build and run

To build and run the application, you can just use

npm start

When starting the application, there are several environment variables that are searched for, but none of them are required:

Environment Variable	Description	Default Value
PORT	Server port	4321
MONGO_SERVER	Mongo server url	mongodb://localhost/xr
MONGO_USERNAME	Mongo username	Nothing - for no auth server
MONGO_PASSWORD	Monog passowrd	Nothing - for no auth server

Tests

The server is tested using some Unit Tests and a lot of Integration Tests.

Unit tests

To run the unit tests in a TDD matter

npm test

Integration Tests

To run the Integration Tests

npm run it