UKVI-Complaints

Getting started

Get the project from Github

$ git clone [email protected]:UKHomeOffice/UKVI-Complaints.git && cd UKVI-Complaints

Install the dependencies and build the project resources

$ npm install

Install Docker Compose

Run the services locally with Docker Compose

$ docker-compose up

Set up AWS SQS queue locally

Run AWS services locally using localstack.

$ docker run --rm -p 4566:4566 -p 4571:4571 localstack/localstack

To create an SQS queue on the localstack instance.

aws \
sqs create-queue \
--queue-name local-queue \
--endpoint-url http://localhost:4566 \
--region eu-west-2

This will return a url, add this is the url of the localstack sqs queue:

http://localhost:4566/000000000000/local-queue

To view what is on the queue currently run:

aws --endpoint-url=http://localhost:4566 --region eu-west-2 sqs receive-message --queue-url http://localhost:4566/000000000000/local-queue --max-number-of-messages 10

Running in dev

Getting your hands dirty (You'll need Redis for this)

$ npm run dev