There are essentially 3 services built into this repo.
- Service to populate a mongodb database with a "schedule" collection that will contain all the hockey games scheduled for the 2017-2018 season.
- Service to fetch NHL scores for a range of days, or a specfic day, and input them into a mongodb collection called "scores".
- Service to handle incoming API requests and provide game projections for a specific date
Make sure to run $ npm install or $ yarn install - either works depending on your preference.
For service number 1, you will need to make sure that you have a running instance of mongodb. For more information, refer to https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/tutorial/manage-mongodb-processes/.
Depending on your mongo authorization, you may need to update the config.yml so that db-connections.js generates the correct access URL. The default assumes mongodb://localhost:27017/hockey-stats. This may work for you out of the box.
Once verifying the above, run $ node src/populate-schedule.js and the "schedule" will be all set up.
For service number 2, no additional prequisites are required besides those in number 1. You have the option of running $ node main.js to get all the scores from the season start to the current date; or you can change the commented lines so the setInterval is called and scores are feteched once a day. It is useful to run $ nohup node main.js & to run the process in the background.
You can run the following command from the mongo shell for example to verify that everything is working correctly $ db['scores-2019'].find({team: "San Jose Sharks"})
For service number 3, you will need to create a file in /src called get-game-projections.js that exports a function called getProjectionsForDay. This is the "secret sauce" and where the fun lies 😉
After that, you can fire up node server/server.js which listens to request by default on port 8080 and serves the results from getProjectionsForDay.