Node Backend for Disclose

Backend service for handling request from the android app and the frontend web app.

Docker

You can choose to use this app via docker. To do so execute these commands:

  cd Node-Backend
  docker build ./ --tag backend:latest
  docker run -it -p 4000:4000 -v $(pwd)/backend:/backend backend:latest

Requirements

• NodeJS (runtime)
• MongoDB (database)
• NPM (package management)

Usage

MongoDB needs to be running in the background. Eventually, we'll provision a former mongodb instance on the VM. For now, just run mongo in another terminal.

mongod

Finally, for running the application itself.

npm install
bin/www

Running on Ubuntu/Linux

Ubuntu and Linux use the Google DNS by default (8.8.8.X). This is blocked by GTRI. The Node-Backend can still be run by changing the DNS server to GTRIs:

Edit the /etc/resolv.conf file and add the following line:

DOCKER_OPTS="--dns=130.207.199.54"