Message Manager Backend

Backend service for message.anothercat.me

Development

Prerequisites

Node 17.5 (see .nvmrc) Postgresql 13 with user with write permissions Redis with REJSON

Setup

Run npm ci to install directly from package-lock.json - if you use npm install or npm i instead it cannot be guaranteed that the dependencies work.

Set up a .env file with the variables from .env.example and fill in the values.

For PRISMA_FIELD_ENCRYPTION_KEY see: https://github.com/47ng/prisma-field-encryption#2-setup-your-encryption-key

Running

Run npm run dev to start the development server.

You will need to setup a tunnel or some kind of way to expose the server to discord. I use cloudflare tunnels. The endpoint for the discord interactions is /interactions

You will need to have a gateway cache instance also running see message-manager-discord/gateway and message-manager-discord/redis-discord-cache

Migrations

Prisma is used for migrations - run npm run migrate to migrate the database.

General overview of important files

.github/workflows - contains github actions for CI config
prisma - contains prisma schema and migrations
src - contains the source code
.env - contains environment variables (do not use .env on production use docker env variables instead)
.env.example - contains example environment variables
.eslintrc.js - contains eslint config
.prettierrc.json - contains prettier config
.wakatime-project - contains wakatime config
Dockerfile - contains docker config