Company review system.

Reviews play a vital role in the world today when someone decides what services or product one want to consume.

Getting started

Installation

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/willypelz/cr-system-be.git

Switch to the repo folder

cd cr-system-be

Install dependencies

npm install

Copy config file and set JsonWebToken secret key

cp src/config.ts.example src/config.ts

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Database

The system uses a database abstractions, namely TypeORM.

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TypeORM

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Create a new mysql database with the name company_review
(or the name you specified in the ormconfig.json)

Copy TypeORM config example file for database settings

cp ormconfig.json.example

Set mysql database settings in ormconfig.json

{
  "type": "mysql",
  "host": "localhost",
  "port": 3306,
  "username": "your-mysql-username",
  "password": "your-mysql-password",
  "database": "company_review",
  "entities": ["src/**/**.entity{.ts,.js}"],
  "synchronize": true
}

Start local mysql server and create new database 'company_review'

On application start, tables for all entities will be created.

###Set an admin for the application seed this information into the database or change any role user you wish to be admin to admin for testing and due to the time constrain.

{  
    "username": "admin"
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "password": "password",
    "role": "admin"
}

NPM scripts

• npm start - Start application
• npm run start:watch - Start application in watch mode
• npm run test - run Jest test runner
• npm run start:prod - Build application

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Start application

• npm start
• Test api with http://localhost:3000/api/companies in your favourite browser

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Authentication

This applications uses JSON Web Token (JWT) to handle authentication. The token is passed with each request using the Authorization header with Token scheme. The JWT authentication middleware handles the validation and authentication of the token. Please check the following sources to learn more about JWT.

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API Documentation/access (Swagger API docs)

This application documentation can be access through /docs

http://localhost:3000/docs

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