digits-api-main is the authentication, preprocessing, and tertiary API bridge in the Digits service mesh.

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📝 Code Properties ✨

The below stack is minimal but also differentiates the main API from the rest of Digits services

📁 Library	⚙ Purpose	📎 Version
NodeJS	Base	16.18.0
express-jwt	Authentication Middleware	7.7.7
mongoose	DB Client	6.7.0
express	Session Middleware	4.18.2

You will want to know about each of these in depth by the above order.

🎬 Environment ✨

config.js should be created from config.example.js

• apiHost is an array with services you can and should add to.
• Secret is the secret which is used to encrypt all user sessions into tokens.
• EXPIRES is the valid session length, if passed users will need to reauthenticate.
• dbUrl is your mongo instance, including protocol and port. You should only need to adjust host in most situations.

The API will crash and behave unexpectedly without a valid mongoose connection.

npm i

📜 Provided Scripts ✨

Digits AI provides some useful scripts to help you quick start.

Scripts provided in package.json. It's safe to modify or add additional scripts, but here are the defaults:

💡 start

npm start

🏰 Service Mesh API ✨

digits-api-main is responsible for a lot, but the API model is simple.

• 🔐 Authentication/Sessions [ express/express-jwt ]
  • Authentication occurs RESTfully with jwt tokens. There is a secret
• 🔌 Interfacing [ http ]
  • All API routing is done through http requests. It's possible sockets play a role one day.
• 🩺 Monitoring [ http ]
  • This API intrinsically reports to DigitsUI, but it also reports the health of other APIs. This contextualizes digits-api-main's role succintly.
• 🗄 DB [ mongoose ]
  • All models are highly fluid and will accept most JSON as valid. This is by design as features are evaluated. Field validation will occur at a later date.
• 🧮 Preprocessing [ node ]
  • While not all data can/should be preprocessed by digits-api-main, a lot is. That puts it realistically in the role of a preprocessor. While all nodes technically work with dataframes and such, a lot of the focus in downstream responses ends up being data.

💎 Goals ✨

immediate

• Initialize beautiful README.md
• Describe service API role
• Add husky pre-commit
• Create mesh diagram
• Explain preprocessor philosophy
• Clean up quota logic, make it middleware

long-term

• Create Stripe customer API
• Docker images
• Kubernetes deployment

🙋 Contribution

Proper commit message format is required for automated changelog generation. Examples:

[<emoji>] [revert: ?]<type>[(scope)?]: <message>

💥 feat(compiler): add 'comments' option
🐛 fix(compiler): fix some bug
📝 docs(compiler): add some docs
🌷 UI(compiler): better styles
🏰 chore(compiler): Made some changes to the scaffolding
🌐 locale(compiler): Made a small contribution to internationalization

Other commit types: refactor, perf, workflow, build, CI, typos, tests, types, wip, release, dep