A hot reloading Express API boilerplate with graphql, mongo db and a docker-compose setup. This is extended from https://github.com/skywickenden/api-blueprint

Uses nodemon for automatic server restarting whilst developing

Create a new repository from this template on the Github website by clicking on the create from template button in the top right.

Create a local folder for docker-compose files. cd into it and the clone your new repository. After cloning, rename the clone folder as api. Copy the contents of example.env, example.docker-compose.yml and example.mong-init.js into the parent folder - into files without the example. prefix. If you are combining this with other templates then you will need to merge the contents rather than create new files. Open .env and ensure that PORT variables are available locally. If not then edit them appropriately. Create and enter database passwords into .env and mongo-init.js.

From the command line in the folder containing docker-compose.yml :

• Build with docker-compose build
• Run with docker-compose up

To install new packages: Run the api docker with docker-compose run api sh and then use npm install <package_name>. Type exit to return to your command line and then rebuild and rerun - only this time add a -V switch... docker-compose up -V. This will force the deletion of the anonymous node_package volume and prevent a docker race condition issue.

Testing is performed using Jest and SuperTest. See an example in ./src/types/foo/foo.test.js. Run tests from the parent folder with docker-compose run api npm run test

Linting is done with eslint. Run the linter with docker-compose run api npm run lint.