Create Walking Skeleton

[jakubkoci]

As a Developer, I want to have an empty project skeleton with basic infrastructure tooling which is deployable, so that I can start adding features and deliver value as soon as possible.

• NodeJS, TypeScript, Express, Jest, async and error handling middleware, file-based database
• Logger, middleware to log HTTP requests
• Linter with pre-commit hook
• Swagger UI
• Docker Container
• CI and deployment
• Database (Postgres / Mongo)

I usually create one issue and implement it with more consecutive PRs.

Although we haven't discussed deployment yet, I added the Docker containerization step. It might also require some CI work too. It's a good practice to deploy the service as soon as possible. Containerization is the least we can do right now, but we should discuss the CI and deployment infra soon.

I purposefully moved the database as the last point. It should be more of an implementation detail.

[lohanspies]

@wdbasson @rblaine95 can we please add this to the DIDx test infrastructure as a pod?

[rblaine95]

@lohanspies, yes, it should be relatively straight forward.

@jakubkoci, can I recommend using rtx (rust implementation of asdf) to control the version of NodeJS on the repository level. Will make it easier to control NodeJS version used in repository.

Once I know the required NodeJS version, containerizing and building CI will be easier.

[rblaine95]

My bad for triggering issue closure

[jakubkoci]

@rblaine95 I'm sorry I overlooked the comment

@jakubkoci, can I recommend using rtx (rust implementation of asdf) to control the version of NodeJS on the repository level. Will make it easier to control NodeJS version used in repository.

Does it mean developers must install this tool on their machines?

It seems like a great tool, however, we're usually using n, nvm or volta (on personal computer) to manage just Node versions.

[rblaine95]

I know, from experience, that rtx is fully compatible with asdf and nvm.
I'm not sure about n, and volta, but I'm pretty sure it's also compatible with those.

You don't need to install rtx, but it's a tool I highly recommend because it's polyglot and very fast (±20-200x faster than asdf)

[jakubkoci]

@rblaine95 I see. Sound like a good tool 👍

If we don't force developers to install it to be able to contribute then I'm happy with that.

How is it going with deployment? Do you need something from my side to add or change to help you with the deployment? I'm going to add dotenv package to be able to pass env such as PORT and others from outside and not hardcode them in the code.

[rblaine95]

How is it going with deployment?

I haven't been able to do the CD side of things yet as some higher priority work has come onto my desk.