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About The Project:

Basically from Hasura we clustered the hello-nodejs-express to deploy our code in their platform.In our project we used the API of facebook messanger to create a chatbot(domain based AI) which is able to provide informations about the movies,tv series, asked by the user.To get the informations about the queries we have used the The Movie DB database api.Through out the project we are sucessfully exploring the Hasura and tring to make the bot too smart.

hello-nodejs-express

Express.js is a Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for node.

What does this come with?

• Express.js Hello World
• Deployed with node server
• Dockerfile (automatically used by Hasura for deployment)

FROM node:8

WORKDIR /src

ADD src/package.json /src/
#install node modules
RUN npm install

# Add app source files
ADD src /src

CMD ["node", "server.js"]

Deployment instructions

Basic deployment:

• Press the Clone & Deploy button and follow the instructions.
• The hasura quickstart command clones the project repository to your local computer, and also creates a free Hasura cluster, where the project will be hosted for free.
• A git remote (called hasura) is created and initialized with your project directory.
• Run git add ., git commit, and git push hasura master.
• Run the below command to open your deployed express.js app.

$ hasura microservice open api

Making changes and deploying

• To make changes to the project, browse to /microservices/api/src and edit the server.js file in according to your app.
• Commit the changes, and perform git push hasura master to deploy the changes.

Local development

To test and make changes to this app locally, follow the below instructions.

• Open Terminal and cd into the project folder
• Run npm install to install all the project dependencies
• Run npm start in the terminal to run it.
• Make changes to the app, and see the changes in the browser

View server logs

You can view the logs emitted by the node server by running the below command:

$ hasura microservice logs api

You can see the logs in your terminal, press CTRL + C to stop logging.

Managing app dependencies

• System dependencies, like changing the web-server can be made in the Dockerfile
• npm/yarn deps can be managed by editing package.json.

If changes have been done to the dependencies, git commit, and perform git push hasura master to deploy the changes.

Migrating your existing express.js app

• If you have an existing express.js app which you would like to deploy, replace the code inside /microservices/api/src/ according to your app.
• You may need to modify the Dockerfile if your package.json or the build directory location has changed, but in most cases, it won't be required.
• Commit, and run git push hasura master to deploy your app.

Adding backend features

Hasura comes with BaaS APIs to make it easy to add backend features to your apps.

Add instant authentication via Hasura’s web UI kit

Every project comes with an Authentication kit, you can restrict the access to your app to specific user roles. It comes with a UI for Signup and Login pages out of the box, which takes care of user registration and signing in.

Follow the Authorization docs to add Authentication kit to your app.

Add a custom API

Hasura project is composed of a set of microservices. These include certain Hasura microservices like postgres, nginx, data API, auth API and more but can also include your own microservices.

• Check out docs on adding another microservice Adding Microservice

Hasura API console

Every Hasura cluster comes with an api console that gives you a GUI to test out the BaaS features of Hasura. To open the api console

$ hasura api-console

Add data APIs

Hasura comes with set of Data APIs to access the Postgres database which comes bundled with every Hasura cluster. Detailed docs of data APIs can be found here.

This quickstart app comes with two pre-created tables author and article.

author

column	type
id	integer NOT NULL primary key
name	text NOT NULL

article

column	type
id	serial NOT NULL primary key
title	text NOT NULL
content	text NOT NULL
rating	numeric NOT NULL
author_id	integer NOT NULL

Alternatively, you can also view the schema for these tables on the api console by heading over to the tab named data as shown in the screenshots below.

![alt text][data1] ![alt text][data2]

This means that you can now leverage the Hasura data queries to perform CRUD operations on these tables.

For eg, to fetch a list of all articles from the article table, you have to send the following JSON request to the data api endpoint -> https://data.cluster-name.hasura-app.io/v1/query (replace cluster-name with your cluster name)

{
    "type": "select",
    "args": {
        "table": "article",
        "columns": [
            "id",
            "title",
            "content",
            "rating",
            "author_id"
        ]
    }
}

To learn more about the data apis, head over to our docs

Filestore APIs

Sometimes, you would want to upload some files to the cloud. This can range from a profile pic for your user or images for things listed on your app. You can securely add, remove, manage, update files such as pictures, videos, documents using Hasura filestore.

You can try out these in the API EXPLORER tab of the api console. To learn more, check out our docs