bjk1456/password_manager_microservice

Allows users to create a master password that will be used to encrypt subsequent passwords.

Password Manager Microservice

Password manager microservice is a simple cloud application developed alongside the Udacity Cloud Engineering Nanodegree. It allows users to create and store passwords, encrypted, using a password manager microservice.

The project is split into three parts:

1. The Simple Frontend A basic React client web application which consumes the RestAPI Backend.
2. The RestAPI Feed Backend, a Node-Express feed microservice.
3. The RestAPI User Backend, a Node-Express user microservice.

Getting Setup

tip: this frontend is designed to work with the RestAPI backends). It is recommended you stand up the backend first, test using Postman, and then the frontend should integrate.

Installing Node and NPM

This project depends on Nodejs and Node Package Manager (NPM). Before continuing, you must download and install Node (NPM is included) from https://nodejs.com/en/download.

Installing project dependencies

This project uses NPM to manage software dependencies. NPM Relies on the package.json file located in the root of this repository. After cloning, open your terminal and run:

npm install

tip: npm i is shorthand for npm install

Setup Backend Node Environment

You'll need to create a new node server. Open a new terminal within the project directory and run:

1. Initialize a new project: npm init
2. Install express: npm i express --save
3. Install typescript dependencies: npm i ts-node-dev tslint typescript @types/bluebird @types/express @types/node --save-dev
4. Look at the package.json file from the RestAPI repo and copy the scripts block into the auto-generated package.json in this project. This will allow you to use shorthand commands like npm run dev

Configure The Backend Endpoint

Ionic uses enviornment files located in ./src/enviornments/enviornment.*.ts to load configuration variables at runtime. By default environment.ts is used for development and enviornment.prod.ts is used for produciton. The apiHost variable should be set to your server url either locally or in the cloud.

Building the Static Frontend Files

Ionic CLI can build the frontend into static HTML/CSS/JavaScript files. These files can be uploaded to a host to be consumed by users on the web. Build artifacts are located in ./www. To build from source, open terminal and run:

ionic build

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