Backend for Movie Store - NodeJS

Runs a node.js server as the backend, interfacing with mongoDB.

Technical details

• Verifies JWT tokens passed in with the requests and also authorizes certain actions which require higher privileges.
• Fetches latest title data from OMDB.
• Uses mongoose-sequence plugin to create auto incrementing fields.
• Includes backend functionality for Stripe payments including a webhook.
• Includes backend functionality for Paypal payments including a webhook.
• Uses Nodemailer to send emails

Stripe related info

Make sure to add the following required info:

1. Webhook Endpoint’s secret from your Dashboard’s Webhooks settings to the env variable STRIPE_ENDPOINT_SECRET. https://stripe.com/docs/webhooks/signatures. Note that this is different for localhost and deployed webhooks.
2. Webhook endpoint to the stripe dashboard, as per the instructions in https://stripe.com/docs/webhooks/go-live. E.g. endpoint can be of the format: https://movie-shop-backend-nodejs.herokuapp.com/api/server/stripe/webhook

Webhook logs can be viewed at: https://dashboard.stripe.com/test/webhooks/

PayPal related info

Create a Webhook endpoint in PayPal, as per the instructions in https://developer.paypal.com/docs/api/webhooks/v1/#webhooks_post. The provided url can be of the format: https://movie-shop-backend-nodejs.herokuapp.com/api/server/paypal/webhook

API Paths

• /api/client - handles all requests from the client. Each request must have a OAuth Auth Token passed in as Authorization Header
• /api/server - handles all requests from the other servers

.env variables

All fields mentioned in nodemon.json.example must be filled with correct values and renamed as nodemon.json.

- MONGOENDPOINT - Mongo DB Atlas connection string
- STARTPORT - Port that this server will run on. Will be overriden by PORT
- ADMIN_USER - email address of the user with Admin rights
- OMDB_API_KEY - API Key obtained for the free OMDB service
- OMDB_URL - URL of OMDB service 
- AUDIENCE - OAuth Audience param
- ISSUER - OAuth Issuer param
- JWKS_URI - OAuth JWKS_URI param
- STRIPE_TEST_SECRET_KEY - Stripe Secret Key
- STRIPE_ENDPOINT_SECRET - Stripe Webhook endpoint Secret
- STRIPE_DVD_RENT_PRICE_ID - Stripe Price ID for the rentable DVD product
- EMAIL_ADDRESS - SMTP email address that is used for sending emails by nodemailer
- EMAIL_PASSWORD - Password for email account
- DB_DOWN_EMAIL_ALERT_ADDRESS - Email address to send alert that DB is down
- PAYPAL_WEBHOOK_ID: Paypal Webhook endpoint's ID,
- PAYPAL_VERIFY_URL: URL to verify Paypal signature,
- PAYPAL_CLIENT_ID: Paypal Client ID,
- PAYPAL_CLIENT_SECRET: Paypal Client Secret,
- PAYPAL_AUTH_URL: URL to get Paypal auth token,
- PAYPAL_GET_ORDER_INFO_URL: URL to retrieve a particular order's details from Paypal
- PAYPAL_GET_PLANS_URL: URL to get billing plans from PayPal
- PAYPAL_GET_SUBSCRIPTION_INFO_URL: URL to get subscription info from PayPal

Available Scripts

In the project directory, you can run:

npm run start:server

Runs the app in the development mode. Uses variables from nodemon.json.

npm start

Starts the app. Need to manually set environment variables.

Deployment

Whenever a git commit is done, project will auto deploy.