Node / Mongo backend for an app for providing payday cash advances to American workers. Visit here for the frontend.
We use Express.js as a backend framework.
We use passport.js for authentication.
We use mongoose for interfacing with mLab
We use the PLAID API for linking a users bank account.
We use the Dwolla API for transfering money to and from a users bank account.
We use the SendGrid API for sending emails to users
We use GitHub webhooks to automatically update the server when a PR is closed on master
We host on AWS, using a free-tier, single-core EC2 AMI instance.
Our api can be found at:
http://ec2-54-212-62-214.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com/api/ or https://quantwebdev.me
We use the cluster module of Node.js to distribute our server over multicore hosts.
- Clone the repo
- Navigate to the repo's root folder.
- Run the following commands:
# run mongodb if necessary
brew services start mongodb
# install depencies
yarn
# run the app
yarn start
Navigate to the root folder of the repo and type:
# Ensure your dependencies are up to date
yarn
# To build for production
yarn run build
# To run for production
yarn run prodmasteris our stable branchjoe/devis Joe's dev branch, currently holding beta features (email verification, email updating, lazy loading transactions) that have not been merged with master
Tyler Burnam, Azhar Hussain, Deven Orie, Joe Connolly