Questions & Answers Service API

A simple GraphQL API to serve data to a Q&A component of a front-end retail portal

• General info
• Technologies
• Setup
• Performance
• Status
• Created by

General info

Technologies

• Node.js - version 14.5.2
• Apollo-Server-Express - version 2.19.1
• GraphQL - version 15.4
• Mongoose - version 5.11.8
• MongoDB - version 4.4.2
• Docker - version 20.10.1
• Docker-Compose - version 1.27.4

Setup

Create .env file in the root directory with the following variables:

• PORT: The port through which our API will listen to calls
• URL: The database URL in the following form
  • mongodb://localhost:27017/DB_NAME - If running with 'npm start' command
  • mongodb://DB_USER:DB_PASSWORD@mongo_qa:27017/DB_NAME - If running with 'docker-compose up -d' command
• DB_USER: Defines root database user on first run
• DB_PASSWORD: Defines root database password on first run

After creating the .env file, execute the following commands from the console:

• npm install to install project dependencies
• npm start to instantiate the service locally
  or
• docker-copose up -d to instantiate docker containers for server and database

Performance

Status

Project is: finished

Created by

Denis Sanches - feel free to get in touch!