Wax Backend

This repository builds a RESTful API and databases, to allow the WAX music review app to access music, user data and reviews. Relational data is stored on a PostgreSQL database, while non-relational user data is stored securely on MongoDB Atlas.

Run Locally

Clone the project

  git clone https://github.com/royr5/wax-backend.git

Go to the project directory

  cd wax-backend

Install dependencies

  npm install

Create two new files .env.test and .env.development to set up the environment variables

.env.test
PGDATABASE=gatefold_api_test

# Spotify
# Replace the following with your own Spotify API details
SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID=your_spotify_client_id
SPOTIFY_CLIENT_SECRET=your_spotify_client_secret
SPOTIFY_REFRESH_TOKEN=your_spotify_refresh_token

.env.dev
PGDATABASE=gatefold_api

# Spotify
# Replace the following with your own Spotify API details
SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID=your_spotify_client_id
SPOTIFY_CLIENT_SECRET=your_spotify_client_secret
SPOTIFY_REFRESH_TOKEN=your_spotify_refresh_token

Setup the database

npm run setup-db

Seed the database

npm run seed-dev

Run tests

npm run test

Features

• RESTful API: Handles user authentication, music data, and more.
• Postgres Database: Main relational data storage.
• AWS Lambda Function .
• MongoDB Atlas: Secured database for sensitive user data.
• Security Measures: Passwords hashed and salted with Bcrypt.
• Jest and Supertest for testing

Frontend Repository

The frontend code for this project can be found in the wax-frontend repository.

Authors

• Jordan Watson
• Hudaifa Temsamani Daoudi
• Ari Abendstern
• Francesco Vurchio
• Karo Barari
• Roshan Roy