Ticketing App

Ticketing app following along with Microservices with Node and React

Development

• Run skaffold dev to start the development K8s/Docker files

Routes*

• We will use express-validator to validate input (req.body) as route middleware

  • validation: making sure the input is what we intend
  • sanitization: changing the input to what we need
  • Use validationResult to pull out the error messages produced during validation step

router.post(
  '/api/users/signup',
  [
    body('email').isEmail().withMessage('Email must be valid'),
    body('password').isString()
  ],
  (req, res) => {
    ...

Auth Routes

Route	Method	Body	Purpose
/api/users/signup	POST	{email: string, password: string}	Sign up for an account
/api/users/signin	POST	{email: string, password: string}	Sign in to an existing account
/api/users/signout	POST	{}	Sign out
/api/user/currentuser	GET		Return info about the user

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Notes

Error responses

• As we include more microservices (possibly built using different frameworks/langauges), the error objects may also be formatted differently
• We need to define the format of the error object returned to be consistent for the React front-end
• Express error handling lets you create a custom middleware function for error handling; it must include 4 arguments in order to know that it is an error handling middleware
• Using express-async-errors for throwing async errors

app.use(function (err, req, res, next) {
  console.error(err.stack);
  res.status(500).send('Something broke!');
});

Common error response for this project:

{
  errors: {
    message: string,
    field?: string
  }[]
}

Abstract Class

• To ensure the error object/serializeError() method is consistent, we will use an abstract class (instead of Interface)
• Cannot be initiated
• Used to setup requirements for subclasses
• Does create a class when translated to JS, which means we can check it as instanceOf (interfaces don't exist in JS)

SSL Error on dev

• Ingress is setup to use https by default
• To get around browser warning: type thisisunsafe in the Chrome privacy window