The Tailwind Traders Node/Mongo DB Starter Site (Preview)

This is a work in progress and I'll be filling this README out a bit more, but if you want to play around right now here's what you'll need to do...

• Clone this repo and install Node modules
• Optionally have Mongo DB up and running locally. You can also use the brilliant MongoDB Explorer add-in for VS Code, which offers an in-memory Mongo DB for development.
• Setup your ENV stuff

ENV Variables

You'll need a few if you want everything to work right, and those are:

DATABASE_URL="mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/tailwind"
GOOGLE_ID="GET ONE FROM GOOGLE"
GOOGLE_SECRET="GET FROM GOOGLE"

GITHUB_ID="GET FROM GITHUB"
GITHUB_SECRET="GET FROM GITHUB"

SMTP_HOST="smtp.mailgun.org"
SMTP_PORT=465
SMTP_USER="postmaster@YOURDOMAIN"
SMTP_PASSWORD="SMTPPASS-aa4b0867-4fa1f484"

Pop these into a .env file in the project root so they can be read by the app on boot.

Azure Deployment

If you want to push this to Azure you'll need to:

• Make sure you have an account and the CLI installed on your local machine
• Do a printenv and make sure you ENV variables are set

The simplest thing to do is to use my fun project, azx. When you create your app, make sure to set the runtime to node. When you create your database, make sure it's mongo:

azx init
azx app create node
azx db create mongo

Once all of this is done (it takes about 10 minutes to provision everything), you'll see a new directory in your project: ./azure. This is where all of your Azure settings live. Inside that directory you'll see a .env file - you'll need to add your settings from your project file here for production. Be sure you don't overwrite the DATABASE_URL - this is how your app will talk to Cosmos DB.

Just add these - be sure to add them above the DATABASE_URL setting - there's a weirdness with the way these things are read from the file:

GOOGLE_ID="GET ONE FROM GOOGLE"
GOOGLE_SECRET="GET FROM GOOGLE"

GITHUB_ID="GET FROM GITHUB"
GITHUB_SECRET="GET FROM GITHUB"

SMTP_HOST="smtp.mailgun.org"
SMTP_PORT=465
SMTP_USER="postmaster@YOURDOMAIN"
SMTP_PASSWORD="SMTPPASS-aa4b0867-4fa1f484"

Once that's done, we can push the settings to Azure:

azx app write_settings

That's it! You're ready to deploy:

git push azure main

This will take a few minutes on first run as there's a lot to do, but when deployment is complete you can open your app using:

azx app open

Once again, this will take a few minutes to spin up for the very first time. Be patient... it'll happen! If there are problems, you can troubleshoot using:

azx app logs

You should be up and live. It's a good idea to read up on how AZX works so you can scale up your service and work with your backend data.