Nowdatabase

NOW - New and Old Worlds - Database of fossil mammals

Rebuild of a fossil database application, old version at https://nowdatabase.luomus.fi/

The new version is not deployed yet.

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Developer documentation

Basic commands 💻

• npm run setup
  • Installs all node modules, and generates prisma client
• npm run dev
  • Uses docker-compose.dev.yml
  • Run in development mode: with hot reload
  • To create test users visit http://localhost:4000/test/create-test-users

Testing:

• npm run check
  • Runs tsc and eslint for frontend and backend: Use this to check for errors before committing.
• npm run test:api
  • Runs the api-tests in a docker container
  • Requires database to be running. Can be achieved by npm run start:anon -- db-anon or just npm run start:anon:api.
  • Uses test_data
  • Uses .test.env
  • npm run test:api:build builds the container used to run the tests.
  • npm run test:api:run runs the previously built container.
• npm run test:e2e
  • Runs e2e-tests inside a docker container.
  • Requires frontend, backend and database to be running. Can be achieved by running npm run start:anon.
  • Uses test_data
• npm run test:e2e:local
  • Runs cypress-tests locally (not in docker) in headless mode.
  • Requires npm run start:anon to be running first.
• npm run test:api:local
  • Runs backend api tests locally (not in docker).
  • Requires db-anon to be running first. (Note: backend doesn't need to be running.)
  • Requires .test.env
• npm run cypress
  • Opens cypress GUI. You can run tests and see what they do.

Windows testing:

• Both e2e and api-tests have a Windows specific command.
  • e2e is npm run test:e2e:windows
  • api-tests is npm run test:api:windows
  • For api-tests: inside .test.env, you need to change all instances of localhost to host.docker.internal.
    • These include MARIADB_HOST, DATABASE_URL and LOG_DATABASE_URL.
  • Note: these are not tested yet.

Test env-file:

• .test.env
  • api-tests requires .test.env to set the correct environment variables.
  • This is created by copying .anon.env and changing all instances of nowdb-db-anon to localhost.
    • These include MARIADB_HOST, DATABASE_URL and LOG_DATABASE_URL.

Coverage:

• Coverage opening
  • Coverage can be opened by opening the coverage/lcov-report/index.html with your browser of choice.
• coverage:sed
  • Fixes issues with .nyc_output paths. Replaces the paths inside Docker to $PWD (current directory).
• coverage
  • First fixes paths with coverage:sed and then recreates coverage/lcov-report to match the new path.
• coverage:report
  • Alias to npm run coverage. Used by cypress e2e tests so that coverage:sed gets executed automatically.

Run with the same image that is used in production:

• npm start
  • Uses docker-compose.yml
  • This builds the code and runs it. Mostly you'll want to use this after major technical changes to check the code works also in production mode, before deploying. And then you'll likely want to do: npm start -- --build to force rebuild of containers.

Docker:

• npm run dev:down
  • Stops and removes the dev container and it's volumes.
• -- --build
  • Useful flag to force docker to rebuild the containers. Example usage for dev: npm run dev -- --build

Further documentation

🚀 Initialize app & restore db How to get the app up & running, and initialize database from sql-dumps

🔧 Technical explanations Explanations of how things work, and guides for some more rare tasks like updating database-schema

🙌 Contributing & integration flow Where to commit? Where are tests run? How is the code deployed?

📝 Frontend Explanation of the frontend logic and how to add views

🔎 Validators The readme explains how validators are written

🔎 Class diagram See the relations of relevant tables. Notice that it omits some unimportant tables and does not show most columns.

🌍 Map features Maps' functionality and development notes