Lanka Kitchen API

Lanka Kitchen is an initiative by Team Watchdog to help community kitchens, ration groups, and other mutual aid organizations run their operations smoother and get support from the communities they serve.

Technical

This project serves data in form of a GraphQL API using type-graphql.

Tech Stack

Data Storage

• Postgres with Prisma

3rd Party Services and APIs

• Sendgrid - Mail delivery
• Google Geocoding API
• AWS S3 — For file storage

Environment variables

• DATABASE_URL: URL with authentication details for your POSTGRESQL instance. (This should go inside .env if you're using .env files to set environment variables.)
• GOOGLE_API_KEY: Google Developer API Key with the Geocoding API Enabled
• APP_HOST_URL: Host URL for the webapp. We use this when directing the users back to the webapp from emails.
• SENDGRID_API_KEY: Sendgrid API Key. Sendgrid is used to send authentication emails.
• JWT_SECRET: JWT secret to generate JWTs for authentication
• AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: AWS Access Key ID
• AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: AWS Secret Access Key
• AWS_DEFAULT_REGION: AWS Region
• BUCKET_NAME: AWS S3 Bucket Name to store files

Setting up on your local environment

1. Clone this repo on your machine.
2. Setup an instance of Postgres and create a database for the project. If you have Docker and Docker Compose installed, you can run docker-compose up -d from the project root directory.
3. Put your .env file inside the project root directory or set the environment variables via the terminal.
4. Run npm install to install all dependencies
5. Run prisma migrate run to setup your POSTGRES database.
6. Run npm run watch to start your development server in the watch mode.