README.md

Caches service

This service caches API requests to reduce latency and reduce database load.

Setting up

1. cd services/caches
2. cp .env.example .env
3. Configure your .env according to the Env vars table below.
4. You should have already configured and started the Docker services. Open http://localhost:15672 in a web browser and log in with the default username and password, both admin.
5. Now, create the user that the caches service will use to access RabbitMQ. Go to the Admin tab and add a new user with username services/caches and password 1234. Click the username of the newly-created user, and then click the Set Permission button. This gives the user unrestricted read/write access.
   • You can choose a different username and password, but you will need to update the RABBITMQ_USERNAME and RABBITMQ_PASSWORD in .env to match.

Now return to the main README.

Env vars

Name	Purpose	Example
REDIS_URL	The URI to your redis server. Heroku sets this automatically.	redis://localhost:6379
REDIS_KEY		socket.io
AUTH0_API_DOMAIN	As per other parts of Midspace; see services/actions/.env	dev-xxxxx.us.auth0.com
CORS_ORIGIN	As per other parts of Midspace; see services/actions/.env
HASURA_ADMIN_SECRET	As per other parts of Midspace; see services/actions/.env
GRAPHQL_API_SECURE_PROTOCOLS	As per other parts of Midspace; see services/actions/.env
GRAPHQL_API_DOMAIN	As per other parts of Midspace; see services/actions/.env
EVENT_SECRET	As per other parts of Midspace; see services/actions/.env
RABBITMQ_USERNAME		services/caches
RABBITMQ_PASSWORD		1234