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Frame

A user system API starter. Bring your own front-end.

Features

• Login system with forgot password and reset password
• Abusive login attempt detection
• User roles for accounts and admins
• Admins only notes and status history for accounts
• Admin groups with shared permissions
• Admin level permissions that override group permissions

Technology

Frame is built with the hapi framework. We're using MongoDB as a data store.

Bring your own front-end

Frame is only a restful JSON API. If you'd like a ready made front-end, checkout Aqua. Or better yet, fork this repo and build one on top of Frame.

Live demo

Postman is a great tool for testing and developing APIs. See the wiki for details on how to login.

Requirements

You need Node.js >=8.x and you'll need a MongoDB >=2.6 server running.

Installation

$ git clone https://github.com/jedireza/frame.git
$ cd frame
$ npm install

Configuration

Simply edit config.js. The configuration uses confidence which makes it easy to manage configuration settings across environments. Don't store secrets in this file or commit them to your repository.

Instead, access secrets via environment variables. We use dotenv to help make setting local environment variables easy (not to be used in production).

Simply copy .env-sample to .env and edit as needed. Don't commit .env to your repository.

First time setup

WARNING: This will clear all data in the following MongoDB collections if they exist: accounts, adminGroups, admins, authAttempts, sessions, statuses, and users.

$ npm run first-time-setup

# > [email protected] first-time-setup /home/jedireza/projects/frame
# > node first-time-setup.js

# MongoDB URL: (mongodb://localhost:27017/frame)
# Root user email: [email protected]
# Root user password:
# Setup complete.

Running the app

$ npm start

# > [email protected] start /home/jedireza/projects/frame
# > ./node_modules/nodemon/bin/nodemon.js -e js,md server

# 09 Sep 03:47:15 - [nodemon] v1.10.2
# ...

Now you should be able to point your browser to http://127.0.0.1:9000/ and see the welcome message.

nodemon watches for changes in server code and restarts the app automatically.

With the debugger

$ npm run inspect

# > [email protected] inspect /home/jedireza/projects/frame
# > nodemon --inspect -e js,md server.js

# [nodemon] 1.14.12
# [nodemon] to restart at any time, enter `rs`
# [nodemon] watching: *.*
# [nodemon] starting `node --inspect server.js`
# Debugger listening on ws://127.0.0.1:9229/3d706d9a-b3e0-4fc6-b64e-e7968b7f94d0
# For help see https://nodejs.org/en/docs/inspector
# 180203/193534.071, [log,info,mongodb] data: HapiMongoModels: successfully connected to the db.
# 180203/193534.127, [log,info,mongodb] data: HapiMongoModels: finished processing auto indexes.
# Server started on port 9000

Once started with the debuger you can open Google Chrome and go to chrome://inspect. See https://nodejs.org/en/docs/inspector/ for more details.

Running in production

$ node server.js

Unlike $ npm start this doesn't watch for file changes. Also be sure to set these environment variables in your production environment:

• NODE_ENV=production - This is important for many different optimizations.
• NPM_CONFIG_PRODUCTION=false - This tells $ npm install to not skip installing devDependencies, which we may need to run the first time setup script.

Have a question?

Any issues or questions (no matter how basic), open an issue. Please take the initiative to read relevant documentation and be pro-active with debugging.

Want to contribute?

Contributions are welcome. If you're changing something non-trivial, you may want to submit an issue before creating a large pull request.

Running tests

Lab is part of the hapi ecosystem and what we use to write all of our tests.

$ npm test

# > [email protected] test /home/jedireza/projects/frame
# > lab -c -L

#  ..................................................
#  ..................................................
#  ..................................................
#  ..............

# 164 tests complete
# Test duration: 14028 ms
# No global variable leaks detected
# Coverage: 100.00%
# Linting results: No issues

Targeted tests

If you'd like to run a specific test or subset of tests you can use the test-server npm script.

You specificy the path(s) via the TEST_TARGET environment variable like:

$ TEST_TARGET=test/server/web/main.js npm run test-server

License

MIT

Don't forget

What you build with Frame is more important than Frame.