Maintainer: Rui Ferrão

Noire Server

Extremely opinionated Hapi boilerplate using a layered architecture for proper separation of concerns

WARNING: Noire is currently under active development and might not be ready for heavy production use

Controllers

• Map routes
• Extract route parameters
• Kick off some work
• Send the result back to the client

Service Layer

• Perform work for the Controller
• Return the result for the Controller

Data Access Layer

• Repository pattern for data entities
• Thin models
• ORM with transactional capabilities

Features

• HTTP and HTTPS support
• Automated API documentation generation
• Stateless JWT auth for API endpoints
• RBAC authorization
• Email sending using handlebars templates
• Fast and flexible logging (Pino)
• Testing, code coverage and Travis CI integration
• Graceful server shutdown
• Database ORM (Objection) with migrations (Knex) support
• Usage of native Promises and async/await

Get it Running

Clone the repo

git clone git@github.com:academia-de-codigo/noire-server.git

Install the required Dependencies

npm install

Adjust the configuration files to suit your environment

Edit all lib/config* files

Setup environment variables

• NODE_ENV should be set to either development, staging or production. If not set at all, defaults to development
• JWT_SECRET should contain a secret which will be used to sign authentication tokens. A safe randomly generated secret can be obtained by running npm run secret.
• SMTP credentials should be configured using the SMTP_USER and SMTP_PASS environment variables
• Staging and Production environment need the DB_HOSTT, DB_NAME, DB_USER and DB_PASS environment variables for configuration the database connection
• All environment variables can be setup inside a .env file which should not be commited and is sourced when the server starts. A sample example.env file is provided.

Reset the database to it's original state

npm run reset

Run the unit tests

npm test

Launch the server in production mode

• Make sure NODE_ENV=production
• Start the server with npm start

Development

• Set NODE_ENV=development
• Start the server in watch mode with npm run watch

Development Environment

Noire is developed using Vim and/or Visual Studio Code. With VSCode the following plugins are used:

• Babel ES6/ES7
• Document This
• DotENV
• EditorConfig for VS Code
• ESLint
• HTMLHint
• Node.js Modules Intellisense
• npm
• Path Autocomplete
• Prettier

For proper code formatting and module intellisense under VSCode, the following settings are recommended:

"settings": {
		"editor.formatOnSave": true,
		"node-module-intellisense.scanBuiltinModules": true,
		"node-module-intellisense.scanDevDependencies": true,
		"node-module-intellisense.scanFileModules": true,
		"node-module-intellisense.modulePaths": [
			"lib"
		],
		"node-module-intellisense.autoStripExtensions": [
			".js"
		]
	}