It has integrations with the NHS COVID Pass Back End which itself integrates with NHSD to retrieve an individuals medical exemptions and test results.
The main purpose of the NHS COVID Pass Letter Service Back End is to manage and process requests based on user's actions which have been initiated through the NHS COVID Pass Letter Service Front End.
GIT is used for version/source control.
GIT can be installed from here: https://git-scm.com/.
You will be prompted to answer a series of questions when installing GIT on Windows. You should select the following two configuration options where possible (otherwise use the default selected):
- Checkout as-is, commit as-is.
- Git Credential Manager for Windows
You should also have/install:
- .NET 6.0 / C# 10 (i.e. Visual Studio 2022 or Rider 2022.2+)
To clone the repository:
- Open a new CMD instance (if installed use git bash) and navigate to the destination directory where you'd like the cloned repository to exist. If necessary, create this folder first.
- Execute the command: git clone https://github.com/ukhsa-collaboration/covid-pass-letter-backend.git
If you have further questions about the NHS COVID Pass Letter or email service please email [email protected]
Link to the licence file
https://github.com/ukhsa-collaboration/covid-pass-letter-backend/blob/main/LICENSE
Gitleaks is implemented in this repo. Gitleaks will scan any commit against a list of regex rules to scan. Please follow these steps to setup Gitleaks:
- Install Pre-commit to enable the gitleaks hook
pip install pre-commit
or
py -m pip install pre-commit
- Enable Auto Updates for pre-commit/gitleaks
pre-commit autoupdate
- Install Gitleaks trough pre-commit
pre-commit install
A gitleaks scan will now run automatically on every commit.