Outline for the project

Project outline

Our course project work consists of separate frontend and backend NodeJS applications.

Files associated with the frontend are found in the path /labtool2.0 and the Dockerfile from the repository root. All files associated with the backend are found under /backend path.

Frontend

• react-scripts are used for something
• redux-thunk?

Backend

1. Is a plain NodeJS implementation
   • less facepalming than with react-scripts
2. Uses Express for application routing into Ruby on Rails alike controllers
   • asd
3. Sequelize ORM is being used as the database backend with its models.
   • asd
4. Somewhat Ruby on Rails alike application helpers implemented but differentiating
   • /backend/server/helpers/application_helper.js intended to store application wide commonly used functions
   • each controller has its own helper which imports functions from application_helpers and exports them along with the functions associated only to the controller.
   • perhaps not the best way
5. Middlewares located in /backend/app.js and are run before any request is processed
   • extractToken: reads the header Authorization and extracts the token and saves it in the request.token variable
     • perhaps unnecessary completely since the next function may be the sole consumer of the variable
   • authenticate: uses request.token and decodes it with jwt and sets request.authenticated as a json which indica
     • application_helpers.js has
6. Admin page /admin path not in interaction with the frontend.
   • implemented using PUG layout which is again Ruby on Rails alike having its view template in the path /backend/views/index.pug