Contacts Management API written with Node.js

Currently application uses several techniques to verify, test and illustrate good practices.

Unit testing: Mocha/chai/Sinon. Mocha for unit test running, chai for assertions, Sinon for stubs (i.e. database pool is stubbed for unit testing).

BDD testing: Cucumber for feature description (Gherkin style), with chai and chai-http assertions to execute actual calls via API.

Database migrations: db-migrate used to manage database migrations, including scoped migrations for test data installation (required by BDD tests). Test data can be easily removed using the migrate down:test operation and npm script remove-test-data.

Database script to be executed by administrator to create database and user, as well as grant necessary privileges is provided separately.

Application requires Redis for in-memory database (session management) and MySQL/MariaDB for data storage. Abstract db-migrate modelling was not used.

Environment settings are managed using Dotenv, and sample file is available in .env.example.

Various links:

• db-migrate documentation - how to run scoped migrations
• db-migrate API examples - to be used to run migrations on startup
• Sinon description - stubbing

Related repos:

• PoC implementation of AUR-alike package for Arch linux - to be updated upon first release
• Website to use the Contacts-API - to be implemented.

Clone, npm install, verify installation by running unit tests npm run test. Create database using provided SQL script (create-database.sql) and set up Redis to use provided password (or change it if needed). Copy .env.example to .env and populate variables with your own.

Run database migrations npm run migrate to create database schema. Run npm run install-test-data to install test data to database.

When done, start the application using npm start and run npm run bdd-test to verify that application is functioning properly.